Books you need to read about the Indian Wars before your mind is perverted by modern apologists, movies and TV shows..
Massacres of the Mountains by J.p. Dunn Jr.
On the Border with Crook by Burke
My Life on the Plains by Custer
The Indian Wars of 1864 by Lt Ware.
The Savage Years by Shepard Rifkin.
Almost any book written by a Mountain Man. Andrew Garcia, Osborn Russell. John Y. Nelson, and way too many others.
Web sites;
http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html
http://phys.org/news/2015-10-mexican-site-yields-sacrifice-spaniards.html
http://ancientstandard.com/2007/07/17/csi-new-mexico-%E2%80%93-possible-genocide-ca-1275-ad/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2885-mass-human-sacrifice-unearthed-in-peru/
http://archive.archaeology.org/9709/newsbriefs/anasazi.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0601_wireanasazi.html
http://www.jeffposey.net/2015/08/18/were-the-anasazi-cannibals/
Back about 1980 there was a show on OETA Oklahoma called IMAGES OF INDIANS. In one episode, a young Indian man said Indians NEVER scalped or tortured anyone! “They would not do anything like that!” But they DID!
YEP! Ancient life in the Americas was all peaches and cream before the “evil” White Man showed up and brought civilization!
A letter from Major James Crawford to Governor Haldimand at Quebec, dated Fiago, January 3, 1782 (intercepted and printed in an American newspaper) :
Pages 140-141 (Hardcover) "From Sea to Shining Sea" :
May it please your excellency: at the request of the Seneca Chiefs, I send herewith to your excellency under the care of James Boyd eight packs of scalps cured, dried, hooped and painted with all the Indian triumphal marks of which the following is an invoice and explanation.
No. 1. Containing 43 scalps of Congress soldiers, killed in different skirmishes; these are stretched on black hoops, 4 inches in diameter; the inside of the skin painted red with a small black spot to denote their being killed with bullets; also 62 farmers killed in their houses, the hoops red, the skin painted brown and marked with a hoe, a black circle all around to denote their being surprised in the night and a black hatchet in the middle to denote their being killed with that weapon.
No. 2. Containing 93 farmers killed in their houses . . . white circles and suns to shew that they were surprised in daytime. Black bullet on some, hatchet on others.
No. 3. 97 farmers, hoops green to shew working in fields.
No. 4. 102 farmers. 18 marked with yellow flame to shew that they were burned alive after being scalped. Most farmers appear by hair to be young or middle aged.
No. 5. 81 women, long hair; those braided to shew they were mothers.
No. 6. 193 boy's scalps of various ages, white ground on the skin red tear in the middle.
No. 7. 211 girls scalps, big and little, small yellow hoops marked hatchet, club, knife, etc.
No. 8. Mixture 122 with box of birch bark containing 29 infant scalps small white hoops. Only little black knife in middle to shew they were cut out of mothers body.
Attached note of Seneca to Governor Haldemond [sic]
Father: We wish to send these over the water to the great king that he may regard them and see our faithfulness in destroying his enemies, and know that his presents have not been made to an ungrateful people.
Father: The kings enemies were formerly like young panthers, they could neither bite nor scratch; we could play with them safely; we feared nothing that they could do to us. But now their bodies are becoming as the elk and strong as the buffalo; they have also got great and sharp claws. They have driven us out of our country for taking part in your quarrel. We expect the great king to give us another country.