Most people think of slavery as something confined to one region and one story.

But in the American West, Native tribes were raiding, capturing, and selling people into servitude and slavery to Spanish settlements like Santa Fe and Taos.

Children were taken. Families were broken.
And this history is rarely discussed.

This clip is from a conversation about Western expansion, tribal conflict, and the parts of history we don’t like to face.

Full episode on the channel.