[Mr Ramsbotham]

If all the American Indian tribes came from the same Bering Sea crossers how come the ones in S. America became human sacrificers and the N. American Indians did not? Or am I just assumeing this?

I think you're just assuming it. Read James Fraser's "The Golden Bough." He's got quite a few examples of cannibalism among the North American Indians. The one that sticks in my mind concerns a missionary whose skin was slit open and pieces of fat inserted inside the slits, to keep him well-basted during the cooking process. He managed to escape, and lived for a number of days on the pieces of fat.

[derllak]

Read James Fraser's "The Golden Bough." He's got quite a few examples of cannibalism among the North American Indians. The one that sticks in my mind concerns a missionary whose skin was slit open and pieces of fat inserted inside the slits, to keep him well-basted during the cooking process. He managed to escape, and lived for a number of days on the pieces of fat.

Oh yech! That's one book I'm never going to read.

[rwfromkansas]

How horridly terrifying.

My history professor doesn't focus on the violent aspects of the Natives, but he does love to talk about how the Natives plundered the land a lot more than we are typically taught. We are taught they respected the Earth, when really, some Indians actually chopped down trees like there was no tomorrow and wasted natural resources like crazy.