When short English colonizers came off ships, and married tall INDIAN Pocahontas beckies.

[Norville Wood]

Imagine being a hungry sailor setting foot into Virginia, and having the tall (six foot) indians help feed you.

Then, you could have a wife, and maybe even join the tribe.

You'd never go back to England !!

 

[idfklma]

Indians were 5'8 which was tall back then

 

[Norville Wood]

Indians were 5'8 which was tall back then

I'd read that the American Indian men were described as six foot tall.

But, either way, they towered over the English.

The colonizers had guns, their only advantage

 

[idfklma]

I'd read that the American Indian men were described as six foot tall.

But, either way, they towered over the English.

The colonizers had guns, their only advantage

Yes one tribe the Osage were 6foot avg but that wasnt the norm. The avg native was 3 inches taller than the avg european, as the Europeans were between 5'4 and 5'7

 

[Socio Cynical]

their only advantage

Idk man being smart enough to move past the fucking stone age seems like a big advantage

 

[solblue]

Interesting. Apparently the native Americans were the tallest in the world in the 19th century. They had a very good diet which got wrecked after the reservation system.
The Euros prolly couldn’t take getting mogged in any facet