The interesting point is that natives also captured colonials' children and did manage to persuade them to stay. And not just impressionable kids, even adults.

The interesting point is that natives also captured colonials' children and did manage to persuade them to stay. And not just impressionable kids, even adults. People in both symmetric situations tended towards pre-modern lifestyle. FTFA The colonials occasionally tried to welcome Native American children into their midst, but they couldn’t persuade them to stay. Benjamin Franklin observed the phenomenon in 1753, writing, “When an Indian child has been brought up among us, taught our language and habituated to our customs, yet if he goes to see his relations and make one Indian ramble with them, there is no persuading him ever to return.” During the wars with the Indians, many European settlers were taken prisoner and held within Indian tribes. After a while, they had plenty of chances to escape and return, and yet they did not. In fact, when they were “rescued,” they fled and hid from their rescuers.