Native Americans were better at building men (mini-doc)

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It’s the mid-1800s. Gainesville, Texas. A party of Comanche warriors swoops down on some lonely farms, and steals horses and supplies. And then flees. A distress call goes out to a nearby US command post. 100 soldiers make chase and, on first contact, kill the Comanche general....

Quanah Parker takes charge.

Quanah is a legendary figure: his dad is chief, his mom, a captured white colonist. Over 100 miles along the Red River, Quanah leads his men. Hiding their tracks. Switching back on treacherous roads. And loses the Americans in the mountains. And Quanah did this not as full grown man, but as a teenager

The modern male teenager is busy with homework and digital raiding parties. Quanah, at that same age, is outwitting the American government Same raw material, wildly different abilities. Quanah was capable of this because native tribes had something we don’t: rituals that turned boys into men. They had cultural technology that forcibly pushes males into adulthood. There’s something to be learned from these tribes about what needs to happen to boys to make them truly grow up.