[ansel12]

Indian POWs were generally treated pretty well, captives of Indians weren’t as lucky.

A captive of Indians if he was taken alive, was likely to serve as the Indian town’s entertainment for a few days as the women and children, mothers and fathers all watched the show put on by their leadership.

These Indian tortures weren’t atrocities that occasionally happened during the heat of battle, by renegade civilians, these were the formal entertainment of the communities, conducted formally and as a part of their culture, and for public consumption and training purposes for everyone, including the children.

[Reily]

yes very true.....like the burning of the captives from Braddock's defeat (so I am told that it is roughly the site of the parking lot at old 3 Rivers stadium!) and the torture burning death of Washington's friend Colonel Crawford, which if I remember correctly was done in retaliation for the killing of peacful Christian Indians by a renegade group of Pennsylvania militia.