@Regranned from @amitz_nasi_tv - The Native Americans were not one people, but #manytribes. The most famous tribes were the #Apache, #Sioux, #Blackfeet and #Cheyenne, each one led by its own #CouncilofElders. The #NativeAmerican way of government led #newsettlers on the Great Plains to think that the earliest inhabitants of the land had no government at all. This was not true, but their government was based on principles that the newcomers had difficulty in understanding. Exodus 22:16-17 KJV And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the #dowryofvirgins. Because there was a need to take care of the women and children of the tribe, marriage was easy. At 17 a youth paid a #dowryofhorses and took his bride (aged 12-15). #polygamy (they had more than one wife), because many men died in the struggle to survive, so there was an excess of women to be cared for #H4119 Original: מהר Transliteration: môhar Phonetic: mo'-har BDB Definition: purchase price for wife, wedding money Origin: from H4117 TWOT entry: 1153a Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine Strong's Definition: From H4117; a price (for a wife): - #dowry. - #regrann