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Subject: [Q-R] Excerpt of History
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:22:39 EDT


............." Until 1637 scalping was unknown in New England. The church
loving Puritans began by offering cash for the heads of their enemies. Later
these God fearing people accepted scalps if both ears were attached. Bounties
differed over a period of one hundred and fifty years, and in different parts
of the country. The French were first to offer bounties for the scalps of
white people, the English quickly following suit. At the time the English
were offering as high as $500 for a warriors scalp, and from $150 to $50 for
those of women and children, including the scalps of unborn babes torn from
their mothers wombs. French prices were somewhat lower then the English. Over
a long period of years , human hair was a larger item of traffic than fur,
and in one lot the Senecas delivered and received payment for ten hundred and
fifty scalps taken from the heads of white men, women and children along the
frontiers. Christian races, not savage ones, were the inspiration behind
these horrible deeds in that bloody dawn of our history.
The white man taught the Indians the idea of scalping, they didn't come by
this naturally"............................................

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