re: #167 Decatur Deb

The settlers of the English colonies in America went native at a good clip. The Seminole tribe was a spinoff of SE tribes, runaway slaves, and white “defectors”. See also—Last of the Mohicans.

Or Cynthia Ann Parker, mother of the Comanche war leader Quanah Parker & origin of the story used in The Searchers. She never re-assimilated into white culture and eventually died of a hunger strike and pneumonia that was more heartbreak than anything else.