>>1191408Again, you obstinate fuck, you're still missing the goddamn point. by almost two centuries of cultural and developmental changes: By the 18thC, most tribes that did scalp stopped scalping, and more tribes than that never started. It was pushed during the Seven Years War as a terror tactic by the French and Brits.
Also, you're a referencing 1970's bicentennial writing, which in itself is folly. Referencing period accounts as it does has to be tempered with the flat out sensationalism of the new world, and the fact that several writers never made it past the coast and wrote "second hand" accounts. You would be laughed out trying to use this article as your documentation.
Try again, anon.
I suggest the "The War That Made America" by Fred Anderson, and "Bloody Mohawk" by Richard Berleth. For extra credit, "White Devil" by Stephen Brumwell