Boonie, your ancestors learned scalping from the English. The English, in the beginning, paid $??? for each Indian scalp brought to them. We fought among our selves, but didn’t scalp, because the brave would not enter the happy hunting grounds if he did it to the enemy.
Yep...That was back before the revolution...During the French and Indian War...
Some western tribes scalped even before that. It was an honor to bring a child or a woman’s scalp for it showed that the warrior had entered into the very heart of the enemies territory...