How many scalps have you collected with your tomahawk, hatchet or axe lately?

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I almost got one today. Unfortunately, my next door neighbor moved out of the way when I threw my tomahawk at our tree.:rolleyes: How about you guys?
 
Tomahawks were NOT used for scalping, knives were used. Ears would be more in keeping with mall warfare. One should be careful NOT to throw a hawk when someone could be hurt.
 


Robert McGee, scalped by Sioux Chief Little Turtle in 1864
 
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Exhibit A:
Obviously they used the knives more but when they didn't have that much time they would use a tomahawk for scalping.
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Does paintings are hardly accurate. The artist took a lot of liberties with his portail of the native peoples. Remember that there were sea monster on some maps dating from the same period. The tomahawk was not used for scalping, the knife was.
 
Well, mine has been working well for scalping thus farr. Did you know that scalps make great area rugs????
 
Evian said:
Exhibit A:
Obviously they used the knives more but when they didn't have that much time they would use a tomahawk for scalping.
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Ohhhhhh pulllleeeeeze. Even the most famous of artists who are given some amount of credit for documenting aboriginal lifestyle are known to have taken great liberty in their depictions. KNIVES were used for scalping, hawks were used for smashing skulls. AND there are very few "documented" cases of Natives killing women.
 
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Ohhhhhh pulllleeeeeze. Even the most famous of artists who are given some amount of credit for documenting aboriginal lifestyle are known to have taken great liberty in their depictions. KNIVES were used for scalping, hawks were used for smashing skulls. AND there are very few "documented" cases of Natives killing women.
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Uh, I'm no expert but I believe they are plenty of "documented" cases of brutality against men, women, and children.. Up in Maine and New England there were some really nasty conflicts. I do not remember where in Maine I saw the article and painting, but it depicted natives braining babies against trees.
 
Bmw4z84 said:
Uh, I'm no expert but I believe they are plenty of "documented" cases of brutality against men, women, and children.. Up in Maine and New England there were some really nasty conflicts. I do not remember where in Maine I saw the article and painting, but it depicted natives braining babies against trees.
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When I lived in Africa they thought everybody in America lived in corrugated tin shacks like they do.

At the time, they were the enemy. Google "propaganda".


:jerk it:
 
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Not a nice thread i think.
Wasnt it the whites that showed the American Indians or owners of the land
in the first place if not they payed them for doing so anyway
Dont forget what the whites did to them either not nice .
or do you forget that .
Chris
 
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or do you forget that
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Yes Chris, a lot has been forgotten or just not talked about. The "American Genocide" happened a hundred years before Raphael Lemkin coined the word. Cesarani states that "in terms of the sheer numbers killed, the Native American Genocide exceeds that of the Holocaust".
Today it would be called " Crimes against Humanity" and the US would be the first to send troops..........Ironic

And as far as who scalped who?
In the book "The European and the Indian,"
But the English took scalping into their own hands when the Indians could no longer be relied upon, and it became an accepted - if unpleasant - reality of Colonial life. By 1723, Massachusetts was paying 100 pounds sterling for the scalps of male Indians aged 12 and over, and half that for women and children. The scalps were then burned or buried.
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Historical records confirm that Colonial authorities offered a bounty on Indian scalps. Hannah Dustin, for example, collected a monetary reward and a pewter tankard. In Salem, redeemed scalps were hung along the walls of the town courthouse, in full view of the public, until the building was torn down in 1785
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Mashantucket Pequot spokesman Buddy Gwin says scalping "was not a practice traditional to first nations peoples" until becoming "a retaliatory act" against colonists.
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History cannot be rewritten but we can admit we were wrong..........
 
History is rewritten every day, my friend.

Such as the common myth of "the noble savage".

Fact is, atrocities were committed on both sides. At least what we call atrocities. They were just matters of war an conquest up until the 20th century, and still are in less "developed" parts of the world.
 
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