Social Control
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Social Science
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: North America
Article abstract: Social control among Indian tribes was maintained by mock battles, ridicule, gossip, public beatings, and execution, among a variety of other means
All Native American tribes had definite rules of behavior and strict concepts of what constituted permissible and antisocial behavior, as defined by the group’s established norms. These norms, or mores, were traditionally accepted rules based on a peoples’ religion and were long established through oral history as a “given way” for individual and group behavior, if the group was to survive....
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