When a Indian warfare broke out with the white in the 1830s, after that is when most Indian tribes started taking captives. Like the Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, and Wichita tribes. Captives was mostly fraught and lots of hardships, The captives survival mostly depended on the captor and that could vary from tribe to tribe. Different tribes varied on different ways to treat their captives most tribes treated captives with unexpected respect. Tribes would adopt captives into their family and raise them as one of their own. They would adopt captives because families might of lost a son or daughter in battle and just want to replace them. Didn't matter about race to indian tribes, they would adopt any race of captives if they were a kid that didn't slag along and made it safe to the indian camp. If children slagged behind on the journey to the camp they would execute on the way and leave behind. Abuse of Captive women was not universal, and was led by certain tribes. Tribes would capture women for maids, and to server the Indians. White girls captured before puberty would be put up for marriage for chiefs or warriors.
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Indians would kill and torture any captive that attempted to escape. Tribes would roast their captives alive if they tried to escape or disobeyed them. They would beat them slowly to death till they were black and blue all over. If a captive had a baby and they tried to escape with the baby they would butcher the baby in front of the mother and torture her after she watched her baby die. Some tribes had strict rules, like if you had a crying baby it would be instantly killed by one blow by a club to the head. If you rejected a man to marry you would be drug around by a rope wrapped around your neck, and if that's not enough they would hang you by your feet and hit you over and over with clubs and poke nails in you. Indians had no mercy against captives except for the comanche
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Indians would kill and torture any captive that attempted to escape. Tribes would roast their captives alive if they tried to escape or disobeyed them. They would beat them slowly to death till they were black and blue all over. If a captive had a baby and they tried to escape with the baby they would butcher the baby in front of the mother and torture her after she watched her baby die. Some tribes had strict rules, like if you had a crying baby it would be instantly killed by one blow by a club to the head. If you rejected a man to marry you would be drug around by a rope wrapped around your neck, and if that's not enough they would hang you by your feet and hit you over and over with clubs and poke nails in you. Indians had no mercy against captives except for the comanche