[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

In the 1960s and 1970s the revisionists tried to blame scalping on the White Man.
In the movie SOLDIER BLUE Candice Bergen claims whites taught the Indians to scalp.

Then a farmer found a large numbers of skeletons at Crow Creek, South Dakota. Now scalping by Indians goes way back to the 1300s and 800AD.

https://ournativeamericans.blogspot.com/2018/07/1300s-crow-creek-massacre-in-south.html

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/9/crow-creek-massacre-in-1300s-remains-south-dakotas/
And 800AD..
https://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/1991/12/01/scalping-victim/

When the Mexican government started offering gold for Apache scalps, several Scalp hunter companies started into the business. The best were Shawnee Indians from Oklahoma and Freed Blacks.

[NWFree]

Thanks for the links interesting read.