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Page 136
... practice scalping ? The great majority of American Indian tribes learned the practice of scalping their slain foes from the white man . When Europeans first came to the New World scalping was restricted practically to a few tribes in ...
... practice scalping ? The great majority of American Indian tribes learned the practice of scalping their slain foes from the white man . When Europeans first came to the New World scalping was restricted practically to a few tribes in ...
Page 137
... practice among the aborigines of the Northeast and Southeast , and it was very uncommon until the appearance of the white man with his steel hunting - knife . The verb to toma- hawk appeared before 1650 , according to Henry L. Mencken ...
... practice among the aborigines of the Northeast and Southeast , and it was very uncommon until the appearance of the white man with his steel hunting - knife . The verb to toma- hawk appeared before 1650 , according to Henry L. Mencken ...
Page 264
... practice the custom of artificially deforming their heads , although num- erous other tribes were given to the practice . The Catawbas , Choctaws , Natchez , Tonikas and several other Southeastern tribes , as well as the Karankawa on ...
... practice the custom of artificially deforming their heads , although num- erous other tribes were given to the practice . The Catawbas , Choctaws , Natchez , Tonikas and several other Southeastern tribes , as well as the Karankawa on ...
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