Posted on 04/05/2015 4:33:27 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Beheadings were far more merciful than what Apaches did to captives. A captive of the Apaches would have danced for joy if he or she was simply beheaded.
Mickey Free,
half Apache,
half Irish ,,,
And? It worked and was a great idea. We should do it again. And it a great magazine. I always get it.
Colonies often paid bounties.
CA apparently paid bounties irregularly on scalps, as did MN for a while. Those are apparently the only two states that did so, although some NM and AZ counties apparently did to some extent.
In this they were simply following Mexican precedent. Mexican states were the primary groups that had scalp bounties, from 1835 to the 1880s. This was often apparently not an effective approach to controlling Apache and Comanche raiders, as Mexican peons and peaceful Indians were obviously a good deal easier and safer to scalp than the warlike tribes.
AFAIK, the US federal government never paid scalp bounties.
Ran across an interesting article on genocide of the California Indians.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/08/14/567667/-The-Great-California-Genocide
They certainly paid scalp bounties, but I suspect the practice probably ended in the 186s, not 1900s.
For some reason the killings of Indians, mostly peaceful, by whites in CA never got the press of conflicts further east.
Bloody, but interesting.
s, ping....
Use to have bounties on indians as, “ the only good injun is a dead one”.
That quote is well used today on mooselimbs.
Maybe they were paid for the entire head so as to make sure the bounty was paid for the correct victim [age and sex?]and not as in the French and Indian War, for any head of hair, which resulted in a lot of scalpings of noncombatants?
***Mexican states were the primary groups that had scalp bounties, ***
From what I’ve read, when the Mexican government started paying for scalps, companies of Americans were organized to hunt those scalps.
Many of those companies were composed of...Shawnee Indians from Oklahoma.
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