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It's worth noting that native American communities thrived for hundreds of years without police or prisons, and they had a variety of different ways of dealing with problem behavior. In the Iroquois Confederacy specifically if someone from one village killed someone from another, the village that was home to the victim would hold the entire village that was home to the perpetrator responsible. To avoid war, the elders of each village would meet and discuss how to make amends, which usually involved gifts and assurances that the murderer would be prevented from killing again. Internally if the problem person could not be reasoned with or was likely to continue their problem behavior, they would be shunned or banished.