These were forcible kidnappings with abusive, forcible assimilation and the term adoption is inappropriate and, likely, intentionally so in modern literature. A more truthful account reads, “The purpose was to abduct members of rival tribes as compensation. Upon their arrival back to camp, the captives were stripped, bound at the hands and feet, and forced to walk a gauntlet of tribe members who repeatedly struck them with clubs, torches, and knives (Legends of America).”
In 1836, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by the Comanche and forcibly assimilated into their nation (“The Rise And Fall Of The Comanche ‘Empire’”).
Francis Parkman, author of The Oregon Trail, recorded at least two incidents of forcible assimilation by the Oglala Sioux. He wrote,
“A bright-eyed, active little boy was living there. He had belonged to a village of the Gros-Ventre Blackfeet, a small but bloody and treacherous band, in close alliance with the Arapahoes. About a year before, Kongra-Tonga and a party of warriors had found about twenty lodges of these Indians upon the plains a little to the eastward of our present camp; and surrounding them in the night, they butchered men, women, and children without mercy, preserving only this little boy alive. He was adopted into the old man’s family, and was now fast becoming identified with the Ogallalla children, among whom he mingled on equal terms. There was also a Crow warrior in the village, a man of gigantic stature and most symmetrical proportions. Having been taken prisoner many years before and adopted by a squaw in place of a son whom she had lost, he had forgotten his old national antipathies, and was now both in act and inclination an Ogallalla (Parkman).”
So land theft and forcible assimilation are negated as moral imperatives in regards to the so-called “civil rights” movement. The issue of massacres such as Wounded Knee are also easily negated as moral imperatives since the quasi-indigenous people committed similar massacres themselves as cited by Parkman in the prior paragraph i.e. the Sioux massacre of a Gros-Ventre Blackfeet village.
The fallacy of exclusion of white Europeans as being victims of racial discrimination or the fallacy of half-truth as white Europeans being sole perpetrators of certain behaviors is exactly racial discrimination. (This makes most civil rights classes illegal because they are discriminatory). This also creates a subconscious bias, especially in novice thinkers or impressionable thinkers