Scalping Quotes
The Indian allies of the French scalped some American colonists which for some whites was akin to the modern reaction to terrorist atrocities. The British and Americans then justified the scalping of their Indian allies as simple retaliation. While Indians had scalped before the whites ever came, the whites accelerated the practice. There was an economic element to scalping. The French “paid” their Indian allies in arms, blankets, trinkets and alcohol by the scalp as it was a crude way of “performance measurement.” Not to be outdone, the English adopted the same custom with the French allied Indians as targets. In North Carolina, for example, the “volunteer” rangers were paid the enormous rate of 10 pounds a scalp.
Clinton was a founder of the society and considered an excellent historian. When giving this presentation he had documentation and academic references for each of the statements.
Nominated for Congress while still on active duty in the Union army, Hayes refused to take a furlough to "stump" or "canvass" his district. He wrote: Hayes was nominated for Congress while still on active duty in the Civl War Union army, Hayes refused to take a furlough to "stump" or "canvass" his district.
While many Americans and Europeans denigrated the Indian as a coward and a savage, sophisticates like Oliver realized that these were mere cultural differences and customs.
Enemy captives were sometimes adopted by Indian families to replace a lost loved one.
This argument, condemned by many Englishmen, was essentially, it is moral to do whatever you God made you able to do a principle that was refuted in Christianity, Judiasm and most other religions. See {620562} for Clinton’s history of white encouragement of Indian scalping.
Cody had fought a one-against-one battle against Chief Yellow Hair whom he killed and scalped. He then rode back to his troops shouting the quotation. Later, he displayed the scalp publicly.
Oliver was the judge who tried the British Soldiers after the Boston Massacre. Most Americans believe that scalping was an Indian barbarity. Although it was new to the European colonists who came to America, they quickly adopted the practice and had similar cultural and macho symbols associated with scalps. This is one of the many eyewitness descriptions of the Whites and their scalping. The barbarity was practiced by White and Indian alike.
Lehmann was captured by the Apache when he was 11 and brought up as an Apache brave. He went on raiding and war parties, killed and scalped other whites, and represents a good example of the physiological conditioning that young people are susceptible to if brought up in other cultures. Also it shows that values and cultural characteristics are learned and not products of birth and genes.
