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Scalping and Torture Warfare Practices Among North American Indians

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For a short paperback work, the author provided some interesting insight of how different Native American tribes used scalping and torture for economic and political reasons. In addition, on how the practice was routinely accepted as part of their culture on a wide scale. No matter what the reason it definitely made a major impact on the colonial society, and deterred expansion for decades. The book gives detailed accounts of attacks and retributions for incursions by white colonials and other Native tribes, with the harshest punishment it seems done against other Natives. A must read for those studying the frontier and colonial eras.

A very informative book. It tells the true story of the early American Indians instead of the current politically correct version. A must read for anyone interested in early American history.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that the paper was acid free. They, also, have other books to help understand Native American culture. It was very informative

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I believe that practice of scalping was introduced by Christians to the new world. it was a mean to steal the baptism from those indians who have converted to christianity. Christianity was introduced to appease the angry natives because their land was been usurped by the europeans. Now after they baptise them and make them christians, the european invade their homes and kill them. So as not to meet them in heaven ( at least that's what the christian european thought), the clergy recommended that by scalping them they would steal their baptism and their belief in Jesus. This way they don't have to meet them in heaven..as if the christians really have remorse.

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Today in Odd History, a group of American colonists attacked a Native American encampment in New Hampshire, taking 10 scalps, for which the British government paid a bounty of £ 100 each.

The colonists, led by Captain John Lovewell, had been authorized to conduct revenge attacks for raids by the Indians against British settlements. They had had some success, killing and scalping an Indian man and taking a boy prisoner in December, 1724. On February 20, 1725, they came across an encampment, and hid in the woods until 2 AM. Once they were sure that the enemy was asleep, they fired volleys into the camp, killing 9 Indians and wounding one more. He tried to flee, but was chased down by a dog and killed. The dead were scalped, and in early March, Lovewell marched into Boston, wearing a wig constructed from several scalps, and carrying the plunder from the raid-blankets, moccasins, snowshoes and rifles.

Lovewell's raids were the first recorded instances of Europeans scalping Native Americans. The practice is traditionally associated with North American Indian tribes. Episodes such as this one, however, have led some people to believe that the Europeans actually introduced scalping to America. In 1820, an Allegheny Seneca chieftain named Cornplanter claimed that the Indians were peaceful until Europeans came. There is also some evidence that if they did not invent scalping, European settlers did help to spread the practice westward as they emigrated across the continent. The archeological evidence, however, suggests that scalping did in fact originate in the Americas, and that it was widespread long before European contact. Skulls bearing evidence of scalping have been found throughout the Americas, many of them dating to hundreds of years before European contact. What the Europeans did introduce was the practice of paying bounties for scalps. These bounties led to an increase in scalpings by white settlers, male and female; a woman named Hanna Duston was actually known as "The Hatchet Lady" for her scalping activities. It seems likely that as scalping by whites became more common, Native Americans may also have begun taking more scalps, and that tribes which had not previously practiced scalping may have begun to do so in revenge for the scalpings carried out against their people.