I think you lack imagination. I imagine they want to be the natives rather than supplanting them. Personally i can get by in the society i was born in (and i’m a lucky one) but i still understand that i’m trapped here and dependent with no option of attempting self sufficiency. Im not into libertarianism at all but the situation where uou must make money to live, as opposed to growing/hunting food to live is a bit fucked up. There’s no opt out from society.
Well, nobody is blocking them from joining a native tribe somewhere.
But those societies tend to have an even higher level of social control than what typical westerns think. And many also had regular skirmishes with bordering tribes back in the day.
What you are looking for is exactly the “big tract of land recently cleared of dispossed natives”.
Normally, on earth, there just aren’t big tracts of fertile land free for the taking.
It only seemed that way for colonials because they didn’t see what the army did the five years before they got the land.
I don’t think whitey can just go join a native tribe but you’re missing my point. There is no land available for anyone to just go and be free. Joining a tribe would not be being free any more than being a part of western society is being free. Maybe though, 2000 years ago, someone could wander off (or be ejected) from their tribe to an isolated spot and be alone, or even start their own tribe.
I think you lack imagination. I imagine they want to be the natives rather than supplanting them. Personally i can get by in the society i was born in (and i’m a lucky one) but i still understand that i’m trapped here and dependent with no option of attempting self sufficiency. Im not into libertarianism at all but the situation where uou must make money to live, as opposed to growing/hunting food to live is a bit fucked up. There’s no opt out from society.
Well, nobody is blocking them from joining a native tribe somewhere.
But those societies tend to have an even higher level of social control than what typical westerns think. And many also had regular skirmishes with bordering tribes back in the day.
What you are looking for is exactly the “big tract of land recently cleared of dispossed natives”.
Normally, on earth, there just aren’t big tracts of fertile land free for the taking.
It only seemed that way for colonials because they didn’t see what the army did the five years before they got the land.
I don’t think whitey can just go join a native tribe but you’re missing my point. There is no land available for anyone to just go and be free. Joining a tribe would not be being free any more than being a part of western society is being free. Maybe though, 2000 years ago, someone could wander off (or be ejected) from their tribe to an isolated spot and be alone, or even start their own tribe.