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Finally the Mexicans got tired of it and began the bounty hunting of these Indians and thus started the gruesome art of scalping.

2007-01-29 14:24:50 · 5 answers · asked by zeepogee 3 in Arts & Humanities History

The way I read it Walt, scalping was against Indian spirituality. The Mexicans scalped for 25 pesos a scalp

2007-01-29 14:39:18 · update #1

Sun you better read your Indian history. There were very distinct tribes and indian nations who murdered each other and soaked American soil with blood long before the white man came. Read about Chief Sealttle and how he condemned the Indian to inevitable distinction. The Mexican who brutalized the No. Cal. Indianss. The Hurons who slaughtered 30,000 Irriqoui in the North Great lLakes.

2007-01-29 14:46:55 · update #2

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This is a sorry kind of question. Peoples have lived here for thousands of years, perhaps tens of thousands. Indians did not separate into "American" or "Mexican" until WE separated them. Even then, many tribes lived on or around the border and did not recognize American frontiers. So which tribes exactly do you mean when you make this foolish statement?

2007-01-29 14:38:43 · answer #1 · answered by suriak 2 · 0 0

You make it sound like nobody ever raided except for "indians", but that simply isn't correct. The ancient Greeks raided other Greeks for cattle, and women, as did the Celts, Arab tribes, Germanic and most other northen european and african tribes.
As for the practice of scalping being started by Mexicans... pure
nonsense! Scalping was taught to the indians during the French and Indian wars by the French as a means of proving how many enemies an indian had killed for the bounty offered by the French.

2007-01-29 19:24:56 · answer #2 · answered by charliecizarny 5 · 0 0

Same Indians in SW and north of Mexico, professor.

As for scalping, the Indians picked that up from the British.

2007-01-29 14:32:45 · answer #3 · answered by Walter 5 · 2 0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalping

That isn't what I have always read - up till I read the above I believed the English brought the practice to the Americas.

2007-01-29 14:33:58 · answer #4 · answered by justwondering 6 · 0 1

Walter is right.

Hey Walter, I gave you a thumbs up. You know what you're talking about, dude.

2007-01-29 14:36:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

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