Weren American Indians savages the way they use to scalp people?
Perdurabo…… The debate is only used to try to shift the blame and escape the responsibility. There is just too much documentation, for that tactic to work anymore, Scalping was wide spread among the Europeans. “The woman and children huddled together, and most of our fire was concentrated on them….no wounded fell into our hands and we scalped everyone. In going over the battlefield the next day I did not see a body of [an Indian] man, woman, or child but was scalped, and in many instances the bodies were mutilated in the most horrible manner, they were scalped, and private parts were cut out. Many men were displaying women and girls private parts on sticks….over saddlebrows, and on their hats while riding in the ranks….and the breasts were cut off and the soldiers were playing ball with them.” Lieutenant James D. Connor The New Mexico Volunteers 16 July 1876 (Explaining before the United States Senate the policy of “Extermination of The Indian” ) ———– In a letter from
