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http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html
“The scalping victims considered in this study came from the Southeast, the Midwest, and the Southwest.
The Midwest is by far the region with the largest sample, estimated at between 400 and 500 scalped individuals. However, most of these victims came from Crow Creek Canyon, the site of a large-scale massacre involving a minimum of 486 individuals (Gregg et al 1981).
The excavators report that not only were almost every person scalped, but they also were mutilated and dismembered, and many of their hands and feet appear to have been removed and taken as trophies.”
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Interesting mention of the taking of hands and feet as trophies. In Burke’s book ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK he mentions how they the troops and their Shoshone allies had attacked a hostile Cheyenne camp, and in that camp they found a bag of hands cut from Shoshone babies.
The Shoshone allies took the bag, and spent the entire night weeping and wailing over it.
The practice arose from the Plains Indians’ belief that a spirit robbed of its hands and feet (and other ... appendages) would be unable to grasp or walk in the Great Beyond.
It was reported that many of Custer’s men at the Little Bighorn had their eardrums punctured with sharp bones or sticks since they had failed to listen to repeated warnings that they would be massacred.
I can’t imagine what koolaid drinker hasn’t known that for at least 40 years...
One of my cousins was married to an archaeologist-a paleoindian expert-my 1st husband and I always used our vacation time to visit whatever dig he was doing in the SW, or in Mexico, taking our cub to give her a REAL education. From villages torched with the inhabitants and their livestock, mutilated skeletons in pits on a battlefield 1000’s of years old, etc- violence was obviously the answer to just about every dispute, trespass or insult-some liberals are still in Lala land...