In this episode of wildwestfaces we take a look at scalping on the Frontier, Native Americans have been performing the complex spiritual ritual for over one thousand years, they believed that the spirit and soul of a person was carried in the scalp and by taking a scalp they were taking their spirit for themselves.
Men women and children were all free game when it came to scalping, by taking a woman or child's scalp proved that the warrior had ventured deep into enemy territory. Although today we see scalping as a barbaric practice, back then it was expected by a fallen foe and the spiritual significance far outweighed any desire to torture the victim by scalping.
Many revisionist historians are incorrectly portraying the practice as something the white man developed and the Indians copied or did as revenge after seeing the white man do it, when it couldn't be further from the truth. The scalping ritual was deeply rooted in their cultural beliefs, far to complex for us to fully comprehend today. By denying the Native American of his history because of our modern sensibilities is a travesty and should be called out whenever it is addressed.
Dinks didn't like their heads touched. They believed it released their spirit. Loved putting the lil bastards in a headlock and rubbing the shit outta their skulls. Hail Buddha.
ReplyDeleteMake scalping great again!
ReplyDeleteToss up....some African tribes ate their victims livers/hearts;whether they were dead yet,or not. Same idea.
DeleteWhen the Vikings came here 400 years before Columbus they called the "indigenous tribes" skraalings. If the Vikings are calling you savages you just might be savages.
ReplyDeleteThey didn't own anything including the land but were willing to sell it without a title then come back to kill you, rape your women and steal you children and horses the next day and claim the land was theirs.
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They sound like democrats...
Delete"By denying the Native American of his history because of our modern sensibilities is a travesty and should be called out whenever it is addressed."
ReplyDeleteOh for crying out loud. Who writes this stuff?
Bleeding heart BS.
Yeah, the noble red man. Living peacefully in perfect harmony with Nature. Worshipping their gods, scalping rival tribe members, running vast herds of buffalo off cliffs for sport...
ReplyDeleteThe idiots in this country have bent over backwards for these people. Making them sovereign nations was as stupid as it gets.
ReplyDeleteBack in the day, you could go to museums like the Buffalo Bill Museum and see actual scalps. Now they have all been removed from public display. It's probably 60+ years since I saw Yellow Hair's scalp as taken by Buffalo Bill at Warbonnet Creek. I may not remember much of that visit but I certainly remember that! Now they have to act like little boys appreciate the art of the Indians when what they really want is the excitement of scalps on a war lance.
ReplyDeleteThat was a great video. A barbarous act from a culture where a man’s most distinguishing feature was his hair. You gotta admit… a dozen or two scalps as an adornment certainly would have been a FAFO deterrent. A “This is what happened to the last assholes that fucked with us!” symbol… I can see where the invading culture would be repulsed given they had already been “brought to heel” through different means long before they arrived in the new world. It’s probably safe to say that the North American Indian scalping an enemy wasn’t the first time it had been done in history considering many other cultures shared hair as their defining feature. Where death was preferred over humility, The Chief that had a flowing red or blonde one at the tip of his spear was seen as one badass injun !
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