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? You might want to check your version of history....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_among_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
The Haida and Tlingit, who lived along Alaska's southeast coast, were traditionally known as fierce warriors and slave-traders, raiding as far as California.[13][14] In their society, slavery was hereditary after slaves were taken as prisoners of war[13][14]—children of slaves were fated to be slaves themselves.[15] Among a few Pacific Northwest tribes, as many as one-fourth of the population were slaves.[13][14] They were typically captured by raids on enemy tribes, or purchased on inter-tribal slave markets. Slaves would sometimes be killed in potlatches, to signify the owners' contempt for property.
[A potlatch involves giving away or destroying wealth or valuable items in order to demonstrate a leader's wealth and power]
I don't know how you can possibly claim they didn't do chattel slavery......
Chattel slavery means that one person has total ownership of another. There are two basic forms of chattel, domestic chattel, with menial household duties and productive chattel, working in the fields or mines.
If you're born into slavery and your children are born into slavery... its chattel slavery...
Also yes plenty of tribes were wiped off the map by other tribes..........
The Iroquois wiped out the Petun, Neutral, Erie & Susquehannock & primarily caused the Fort Ancients, Mascouten & Manahoac tribes to disappear through their actions during the Beaver Wars. It's up for debate whether the Shawnee or the Iroquois wiped out the Monongahela Culture, since neither tribe seems to remember the nation's existence, today, but archaeology seems to side with the Shawnee theory. The Iroquois also wiped out most of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians just before the French settled Quebec for unknown reasons. The Creek Confederacy wiped out many tribes in Georgia & Florida. The Migmaaq took out the last of the Beothuk.
The Iroquois effectively destroyed several large tribal confederacies, including the Mohicans, Huron (Wyandot), Neutral, Erie, Susquehannock (Conestoga), and northern Algonquins, with the extreme brutality and exterminatory nature of the mode of warfare practised by the Iroquois causing some historians to label these wars as acts of genocide committed by the Iroquois Confederacy.[4] They became dominant in the region and enlarged their territory, realigning the American tribal geography. The Iroquois gained control of the New England frontier and Ohio River valley lands as hunting ground from about 1670 onward.
I'm aware of what chattel slavery is, and it was not a widespread practice on the same scale. Two tribes practicing chattel slavery in one specific geographical area (both those tribes were close to each other and were engaged in bitter Wars as well as struggles for dominance in the fur trade) doesnt make it a broad practice among Native Nations. A few other tribes engaged in chattel slavery after learning it from the Europeans.
And yes, there was bitter tribal conflict that resulted in near genocidal activities by some tribes...as a direct result of European influence. Prior to the decimation of animal populations for fur trading, this wasnt a common practice.
Many in fact did take lifetime chattel slaves, in other tribes slavery was different.
No, not many. In a few.