That's wishful thinking. Nearly all the tribes of the Olympic Peninsula's Pacific Coast [1] practiced chattel slavery: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook

That's wishful thinking. Nearly all the tribes of the Olympic Peninsula's Pacific Coast [1] practiced chattel slavery: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinookan_peoples#Historic_culture https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinookan_peoples#Historic_c... The Makah were required to free their slaves and abandon the practice as an explicit condition (Article 12) of their peace treaty with the United States: https://www.fws.gov/pacific/ea/tribal/treaties/MAKAH_1855.pdf https://www.fws.gov/pacific/ea/tribal/treaties/MAKAH_1855.pd... The Quinault were required to do so as well (Article 11): https://goia.wa.gov/resources/treaties/quinault-treaty-1856 https://goia.wa.gov/resources/treaties/quinault-treaty-1856 [1] In many senses the Olympic Peninsula's West-slope rainforest is the ultimate ecosystem for hunter-gatherers: so rich in food sources that none of the native tribes had to develop any form of agriculture, yet most of them had developed written language. It was certainly the last such ecosystem to experience "first contact" (~1850 C.E.) with modern technological society, and as a result we know more about the natural state of hunter-gatherer civilization there than anywhere else.