Reply #169: I doubt that Native people (even kids) spent all day....

[Zookeeper]

playing, swimming and riding horses. I'm sure they had to work to live and had their own structure, rituals and schedules (as in "time to hunt, time to gather, time to cook, time to worship") to keep.

And the idea that the Pilgrims were a bunch of stiffs wearing dark clothes, has been debunked.

My original point was that you can't lump all Native people and cultures together. The Huron were different from the Zuni. The Lakota were different from the Mayans, just like Italians are different than Finns.

On edit: By "assimilate" are you saying the English should have abandoned technology?