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- From: miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman )
- Subject: Re: Cannibalism (was Re: Bronze in Native America)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.145621.3447@acuson.com>
- Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California
- References: <1992Dec18.205841.18449@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1992Dec19.165138.853@Princeton.EDU> <1992Dec21.224312.8764@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:56:21 GMT
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- kja@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (krista.j.anderson) writes:
-
- >The most personalized report of doing something to an enemy I've
- >read is in _Black Elk Speaks_. Black Elk was about 13 at the time
- >of the Battle of Little Big Horn (1876), too young to fight, but
- >old enough to be expected to scalp a dead 7th cavalryman. He
- >managed to complete his task, but not without throwing up a couple
- >of times.
-
- Wasn't scalping originally something the European settlers
- in America introduced?
-
- - Michael Goldman
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