Posted on 05/16/2007 11:00:42 AM PDT by drzz
“Scalping, is mainly an American Native thing.............”
actually it was taught to the indians by.......
Guess who??
The FRENCH!
:)
What a joke. You have no idea what you’re talking about. I visited West Point, Little Big Horn, Black Hills, Yellowstone, most of the CW battlefield in the East.
And my quotes are by people studying the battle for 50 years, or more. Give something serious here. I am waiting, “historian”.
:-)
Too bad. I am not French.
For your information, scalping was done much earlier, Indians were scalping enemies centuries before Colombus came.
Sorry, the Frenchies didn’t teach anything :-)
Well, it wasn’t just plunder. They cut off their scrotums. Disemboweled the dead. All other kinds of acts. While it may have ben customary for some, it wasn’t customary for the times. Arguments can be made for atrocities of course all around in those times, however it was considered especially heinous even in those times. But I understand what you are saying.
For your information, scalping was done much earlier, Indians were scalping enemies centuries before Colombus came. Mutilating bodies was Indian customs and Indian religion since the beginning.
Knew that. All the more reason for the total anhilation of their "customs and religion".
The French?.......So that’s why they wore wigs!...........
What’s sure is that Texas, your homeland, was destroyed by Satanta’s warriors in 1868-1869, scalping, raping men and women and selling Texan children on the Mexican boarders, to make them prostitutes.
Watch the Washita story and remember that it was what Texas suffered during these times:
http://custer.over-blog.com/categorie-10018053.html
Indians didn’t learn at all how to scalp or mutilate bodies. They were doing that for centuries.
I KNOW, the Aztecs and Mayans were very good at it........
LOL, Texas is not my homeland. Bred, born, raised and living in the great fly-over State of Nebraska. Indian country, boy. Where the men are men and the sheep are scared.
It’s the “LOVE TEXAS” which fooled me. LOL
Nebraska has also a long history of Indian-White relations.
Semper Fi Bro
Just read your about page.
Ain’t it great to have these folks come here and tell us about our history?
Makes me teary eyed.
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