They would tie their captives to poles in the middle of camps and slowly torture them to death. ... They did not need continued migration from Europe to sustain or expand their settlements, in part because New England and the middle colonies were very healthy places to live by seventeenth-century standards. ... In much of eastern North America, women had been the agriculturalists, responsible for planting and tending crops. ... By 1800 the remaining Native American women in the eastern third of the continent had largely succumbed to these pressures, primarily because it was impossible for I...

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