Okay...I haven't been following your posts on this crazy romance author carefully, but I know enough that what I'm about to mention is a) either something she is completely unaware of, or b) something she has heard about and subverted horribly in her trashy novels. I own a couple of books on the subject but have never done any real research into it. I'd look up references for you, but I've no idea how to phrase the searches so that useful information pops up.
That all being said...
There was a practice among some Native American Tribes to 'replace' missing or dead family members by kidnapping women or children from the group of people that wronged them. After European colonization, that was most often the white settlers.
These people were not held 'captive' in the way we'd consider it today. They weren't kept bound and they weren't tied to the group they were living with by anything beyond isolation. They were welcomed as family members, taught the lifeways of the people they were now living with, and were not held to be inferior within the group.
Personal narratives written after these 'abductees' returned to White civilization seem to remember the time they spent there fondly and, further, there are multiple recorded cases of women and children running away back to their abductors or, as they would phrase it, their adopted families.
It seems that many found White society difficult to readjust to, and preferred the lifestyle they had as 'natives'. This is much less a case of 'Stockholm Syndrome' and much more that the Native groups often had a better quality of living. Life on the frontier could often be grueling with little room for personal freedom or anything resembling 'relaxation', not to mention strict religious and social structure.
So...yeah. It has happened, but most of the stories you're talking about are really something else entirely.
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That all being said...
There was a practice among some Native American Tribes to 'replace' missing or dead family members by kidnapping women or children from the group of people that wronged them. After European colonization, that was most often the white settlers.
These people were not held 'captive' in the way we'd consider it today. They weren't kept bound and they weren't tied to the group they were living with by anything beyond isolation. They were welcomed as family members, taught the lifeways of the people they were now living with, and were not held to be inferior within the group.
Personal narratives written after these 'abductees' returned to White civilization seem to remember the time they spent there fondly and, further, there are multiple recorded cases of women and children running away back to their abductors or, as they would phrase it, their adopted families.
It seems that many found White society difficult to readjust to, and preferred the lifestyle they had as 'natives'. This is much less a case of 'Stockholm Syndrome' and much more that the Native groups often had a better quality of living. Life on the frontier could often be grueling with little room for personal freedom or anything resembling 'relaxation', not to mention strict religious and social structure.
So...yeah. It has happened, but most of the stories you're talking about are really something else entirely.