Forty five years ago I read COMANCHES: THE DESTRUCTION OF A PEOPLE. I figured it would be a usual “Low the Poor Indian” type of book, but it was a brutal assessment of them. Took me by surprise!
Any tribe that would burn the face off a captive white girl before trading her back to the whites needs to be crushed.
” Matilda Lockhart, a sixteen-year-old White girl. Matilda, who had been captured with her sister in 1838, claimed that her captors had physically and sexually abused her.
Burn scars, coupled with the mutilation of her nose, supported her stories. She also said that fifteen other captives remained in Comanche hands and that the tribe’s leaders intended to ransom these hostages one at a time.”
I should add that the above mentioned mutilation of Matilda Lockhart, led to the Court House Massacre of the Indians.
One little 5 year old Comanche boy using a bow and arrow managed to kill a man at that fight. They were raised to kill very young.