[oldplayer]

This list left out the Karankawa along the Texas coast. There were Choctaw in parts of Louisiana besides our homelands in Mississippi. However, we traveled very carefully in the hinterlands of Louisiana and never along the Texas coast. Karankawa would eat you if they caught you.

Lots of modern “scholarship” has been trying to dispel the cannibalism of the Karanawa. However, the stories of man-eaters along the Texas coast is very old and embedded within the stories of other tribes.

[Verginius Rufus]

I think there is an effort to deny cannibalism among the various indigenous peoples of the New World but there is a lot of evidence. There was a scientific study some years ago proving cannibalism in the Four Corners region (from analysis of coprolites proving that the person who left what became the coprolite had eaten human flesh). There was a book about it--I think the title is Man Corn.

There are reports of French traders visiting Indians and being offered part of a human body to eat.

There was a movie quite a while ago (40 years plus) called How Tasty was My Little Frenchman about a Frenchman who was shipwrecked on the coast of Brazil in the 1500s, taken in by a local tribe for a year and treated nicely, before they killed him and ate him. Apparently based on a real event.