Birdwatcher, I think you've enough to add to the history that you should consider writing a book. Excellent insights here.
Thanks, what I find really interesting in the maxims for success common to Comanche society and our own.
1) A great emphasis was placed on personal initiative.
2) The right to accumulate personal wealth was inviolate.
3) Said wealth was reinvested to create more wealth.
4) And nobody really gave a damn who your father was, there were numerous examples of captives rising through the ranks, including a few White and Black folks.
What Hamakeinen does noticeably omit however is what looms large in the Texas conciousness; nowhere does he make anything more than vague and indirect references to the sadistic torture of captives.
Unfortunate, as it brings the whole work into question.
Birdwatcher
