It wasn't unusual for white girls to be raised as "their own" after they kidnapped them, from their families which they almost alway tortured, unmercifully, before killing.
Or White boys either, a major problem often being getting these people to come back to White society later, especially back East. It seems the sort who most relished going out and knocking heads often weren't the same folks who did the adopting back in camp.
Of course intermarriage was so common whereever the Frontier stabilized for any length of time that by the time of Removal there were generally two distinct factions; full-blood and mixed.
I especially enjoy the stories about the Cherokee's favorite passtime of throwing the white babies into the air and watching them bounce off the rocks until dead.
White baby tossing? a favorite pastime? expound please...
