Another technique was for a warrior to swoop into an enemy village and buy up all the tickets for an event, and then sell them back at greatly inflated prices on the night of the show to people who hadn't been able to get a seat.

@robertaylor9218

2 жыл бұрын

I really wish this was historically the normal way of scalping.

@TheStoryOutWest

2 жыл бұрын

Truly, the most soulless of crimes.

@tortureddummies1672

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely evil! Savages!!! 🤬

@4thamendment237

2 жыл бұрын

Man, you got THAT right! Grrr...

@quetzelmedina3

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

"Video games and guns cause violence" humanity before guns and video games:

@Justin-pe9cl

2 жыл бұрын

HAH true.

@mansfield360

2 жыл бұрын

Mongolians used to cut holes in living people and then have their way

@Justin-pe9cl

2 жыл бұрын

@@mansfield360 I'm going to need a source with that.

@chrisbaseball3

2 жыл бұрын

They definitely had guns dude

@RagnarLoudpak

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisbaseball3 yea and they had scalping before that. You missed the point

Something else that isn't mentioned is the "scare factor" that scalping had over people. Nobody wants to get killed, but being mutilated after is terrifying to a lot of people. This was fast to do, and struck terror in your enemy.

@notevenadoctor

Жыл бұрын

Watch the whole video pal

@DoNotFuss

Жыл бұрын

​@@notevenadoctorThe creator of the video gave him a heart and he mentioned it in the video too. What's your point?

@MuskratOutdoors

Жыл бұрын

@@notevenadoctor I did Jack ass.

@MuskratOutdoors

Жыл бұрын

@@DoNotFuss Thank you. One in every bunch.....

@talloncusack

Жыл бұрын

I mean the scare factor is that they’d scalp you while you’re alive, I think, but sure.

My dad, born in 1950, told me about one of his teachers, who had lived through being scalped. That’s all, as a kid that was very jarring.

@AVG-ub5sj

Жыл бұрын

My father was also born 1950, that’s awesome

@DeadGuye1995

Жыл бұрын

Your dad lied to your face, assume the teach was 105 years old when telling ur pa, say ur pa was 10. This is being super genrous to you, even then the teach wuld been born in. 1950=10 yr old Pa, its 1960 MINIMUM. The teach is 105 MAXIMUM in 1960. 1960-105= 1855. This is the Teachers birth year. If he survived hed have the strength of an Adult. Marie Curie did not invemt antibiotics yet.+20. =1875. 1890 was the final battle ever versus Native Americans. And by this point it was not a battle, not a single American died.

@up_dogF1

Жыл бұрын

​@@DeadGuye1995lmao chill out dude

@OldSchoolParatrooper

Жыл бұрын

That math doesn't add up if the context was scalped by natives. My father also had a teacher who'd been scalped. But it was by a lathe machine when he was younger.

@jaym291

Жыл бұрын

@@DeadGuye1995 Who said it was a native who did it... It could've been literally anyone, a rival, a criminal, a gang - You have no idea, stop calling people you don't even know liars because you have some misplaced sense of self-righteousness.

Amazing how creative humans are when it comes to hurting each other

@thtboiz9443

2 жыл бұрын

We’re just animals given intelligence what u expect from the past

@marcuscole1994

2 жыл бұрын

@@thtboiz9443 thank you

@Ekdrink

2 жыл бұрын

@@thtboiz9443 way too many don’t realize this lol

@nicholasrodriguez4990

2 жыл бұрын

@@thtboiz9443 Damn that’s a good way to put it

@bkh5746

Жыл бұрын

Maybe he was a bald indian who wanted hair extensions

It does not matter what color people are or what part of the world they are from. People will do barbaric things to each other.

@Shahzadkhan-dm3cv

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly.... 👏 And those people are the one's who Are certainly Heartless... Pure Evil That have and show no mercy at All....

@Ligierthegreensun

2 жыл бұрын

Lots of European warrior cultures straight up cut off the heads of defeated enemies as prizes.

@teekey1754

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ligierthegreensun Some were eating their enemies.

@onlythewise1

2 жыл бұрын

some do more barbaric things dork

@justintoe3005

2 жыл бұрын

Humanity is a violent thing

0:38 That’s my grandpas grampa! Thank you for giving him recognition! I see photos of him on the media and in academic books constantly, but rarely with his name. I’m very thankful!

Came for scalps, stayed for scalps. Very entertaining video!

One of my direct ancestors was a Palantine settler in the Mohawk Valley in the 1700s.. While in her teens she was shot and scalped while assumed dead .. she survived and lived into her 80s

@anon2427

2 жыл бұрын

She must’ve been tough as nails

@BetrayerSlayerMusic

2 жыл бұрын

No doubt

@steve-0493

2 жыл бұрын

Tougher than woodpecker lips!! ✌🍻

@jameskernan4848

2 жыл бұрын

I'm from the Mohawk Valley alot of history there but of course democrats would kill our American history.

@michaeldavidfigures9842

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, a helluva story. Do you know the story of Hungry Momma Campground. If you don't you should look it up. Another great human interest story from the frontier.

The novel, Blood Meridian goes into great detail about the groups of people throughout Texas and Mexico that scalped for the government, for money, trade even just for fun. It's a really tough read at times, and it's written by the author who wrote No Country for Old Men. Highly recommend it

@Jack-sh6xr

2 жыл бұрын

McCarthy never disappoints

@plaguepandemic5651

2 жыл бұрын

Even deeper than that, it discusses why humans seem to enjoy violence and why war is such an integral part of our societies and cultures. The judge was so terrifying because he makes us take a really uncomfortable look at ourselves, his words carry wisdom, morbid as they are. Great book

@pizzamigoo2911

2 жыл бұрын

and the road

@BigSmacks

2 жыл бұрын

I recommend The Story of Geronimo

@plaguepandemic5651

2 жыл бұрын

@Brother Sam He is definitely no moralist, but his words on war resonated. The people of Glanton's gang came from all walks of life, there was even an ex-priest among them, and yet none of them could find fulfillment until they came to Mexico and went to war. Whenever the Judge spoke about the subject everybody disagreed with him; Brown called him crazy, and yet after they seized the ferry he lit a soldier on fire inside a public bar, went to jail for it, and broke out of jail by lying to a young boy and then shooting him in the back of the head later on. He even kept a necklace of ears on him as a trophy, but still disagreed with the Judge about war. Tobin was also a big naysayer of the Judge's, and yet he took part in all of the massacres and debauchery as much as anyone, even gunning down innocent, unarmed people who were running away from him in the street after the bar fight scene. We see the kid struggling with his morals throughout the novel. He seems to be in limbo, between succumbing to his violent nature and rising above it. Before he met Glanton's gang, he wandered aimlessly, never sticking to any one job for long. After Glanton dies and he escapes into the desert with Tobin, he once again resorts to wandering aimlessly, struggling and failing to find any kind of fulfillment in his life. In fact, riding with Glanton was the only thing he ever really stuck with in his entire life. Right before he heads into Fort Griffin at the end of the last chapter, he shoots and kills a teenage kid with zero remorse just for being rude to him, and orphans somebody else in the process. The underlying theme here is that while everybody in the gang was a no-good murderer, the Judge was the only person among them who was honest with himself and understood his true nature: that he LOVES being at war. The others all just lied to themselves and tried to hold onto some shred of moral dignity even in the face of their actions. The Judge wanted the kid to see this hypocrisy and just embrace his true nature as the Judge had done, but in the end the kid just ended up being like everyone else. His denial didn't matter in the end though, because the Judge represents the inner violent nature of all real human beings, and he "never sleeps, and says he will never die".

Great video! As a native person, it's well known that we had become very embarrassed of scalping and would always say, "That's a practice the French brought here." But one of my elders and tribal historians told me that we've been doing it long before visitor ships came here. It's time to reclaim it and own it. It was a savage time in world history; lawless. I think this is also where the term bounty head came into the American lexicon, as it referred to rewards for killed and scalped natives. Thank you.

@benjaminhawthorne1969

Жыл бұрын

Now you have got me truly confused. My Native American friend assured me that the French popularized scalping by doing it to the Native Americans first. That is where the "Indians" learned it. Somebody is incorrect. 🤔

@KainoaBlackeagle

Жыл бұрын

@@benjaminhawthorne1969 That's what I'm saying. We're ashamed of the history that we've done it before European contact. We have to own our history.

@loslobos786

Жыл бұрын

​@@benjaminhawthorne1969 also a Native American we didn't learn it from Europeans but don't take mine or his word go look at the hundreds of Archeological sites dating pre 1492 where nearly everyone killed in a unnatural way has evidence of scalping on their Skulls. Lots of Natives are ashamed of how brutal we were and would rather blame the Europeans. I take the view that only by embracing our past can we move forward and heal and be proud again. We a stone aged society held off the greatest powers of the world for almost five hundred years, that's like Aliens attacking Earth and we kick their ass!! That's something to be proud of.

@KainoaBlackeagle

Жыл бұрын

@loslobos786 Not me, I'm not ashamed. I'm glad we took scalps as trinkets of war. I've even incorporated scalping into my routines for sneak up exhibition dancing. I'm savage as my ancestors were. That's how I maintain my connection through them. Well, one of many ways.

@tims5978

Жыл бұрын

@@benjaminhawthorne1969 just found out scalping was used in different ways. some did it to live people and other regions did it to dead victims to make their spirits less angry. no matter native history gets confusing we're grouping the whole native northern American tribes and nations as a monolith. when someone says some native told them something that contradicts another native's history theres a high possiblity theyre both right. gets confusing real fast

Thank you! I'm a 68 year old American man, a Native of Iowa. I have pondered scalping for decades. You did a great job and answered my questions. Bravo.

@panzershock441

8 ай бұрын

Pondered it? Its a little late in the era to take up scalping, you get in trouble for that nowadays!

Interestingly when the Samurai took heads during battle as proof of a kill as it became a problem to carry too many they would cut the top lip (in a kind of "face" scalping) the reason for this was to prove the kill was from a man ( the moustache being proof) and not a cheat by using a woman or even a child

@assassinmanx6128

2 жыл бұрын

What if they didn’t have a mustache lol.

@hyunjunlee5107

2 жыл бұрын

The Japanese would also take noses if there were too many dead enemies. During the Imjin war in Korea the Japanese were reported to collect noses. This was during the second invasion of Korea.

@arturoperez6473

2 жыл бұрын

@@hyunjunlee5107 yes they also took noses, I recently learned that there's actually a little known monument in Japan that not even many Japanese people know of, that's basically a mound of Korean noses.

@playbackproductions1

2 жыл бұрын

My mom says there's a lot of black people in japan

@europeanian4205

2 жыл бұрын

@@playbackproductions1 That's unfortunate.

As a species we have been woeful, we certainly didn't become the apex by being lovely cudly friendly animals. Thanks for informative video.

@Tipi_Dan

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, but now we all want be lovey cuddly friendly animals--- even lions, leopards, hyenas [Kevin Richardson], foxes [Save A Fox], cheetahs, jaguars [Luna], caracals [Dolph Volker], pumas [I_Am_Puma], lynxes [Bobcat], bobcats. I even saw a wolverine that was cute, and nice, and wanted to snuggle. Not to forget those crazy adorable fruit bats. . Humans, apparently.... or just some of us actually.

@jahmah519

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tipi_Dan Definitely not all of us, some of us really are lovely cudly friendly animals.

@lilrara1291

2 жыл бұрын

Apex😭😭😭

@jahmah519

2 жыл бұрын

@@lilrara1291 In other words? I don't get you!

@lraoux

2 жыл бұрын

War leads to technology and development. Not scalping, though.

That really explains why some tribes warriors had only a scalp lock. It was a flex on other tribes saying “If you want my scalp, then you have to get really close to get it and it ain’t gonna be easy for you.”

"Whats cooler than sneaking into an enemy camp and scalping them?" literally anything else

Thank you for clearing up that misconception about the origin of scalping. I had to debate this very subject with some of my students because some were told the whites started it. It already existed here. The whites just made it more prolific by paying bounties for scalps. It got to a point where people dug up dead bodies to steal them off corpses for the bounties.

@Patrick3183

2 жыл бұрын

Nobody except woke anti-white racists think whites started scalping

@Gillc51

2 жыл бұрын

Isnt their a history of this taking place during the Roman Gaulic wars.

@leoowes2234

2 жыл бұрын

it was the French that started scalping just to be mean to the Native Americans

@Gillc51

2 жыл бұрын

@@leoowes2234 Really then how do you explain the French Indian wars? I remember reading a piece on this that suggest that King Loui of France placed a bounty on British scalps. And as far as native people the Micmak in Canada It was the British that placed a bounty on their scalps. The British are far less inocent than you are making them out to seem in fact I would say they are just as guilty as the french.

@CYCLONE4499

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gillc51 yes I heard about that as well. Some of the germanic tribes took them as war trophies on occasion

In Massachusetts, British settlers were frequently murdered by Native Tribes allied with the French during King George’s War. In response, the colony issued a bounty for the scalps of Native men, women, and children. New York passed a similar law the next year. Over the next few decades, these types of bounties became increasingly common. In 1756, Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Robert Morris declared war upon the Delaware tribe, offering, “for the scalp of every male Indian enemy above the age of twelve years, produced as evidence of their being killed, the sum of one hundred and thirty pieces of eight.” . May 28, 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law...

@MG-fn9xw

Жыл бұрын

My 7x great grandfather Samuel smalley or Robert smalley, was in Mass back in the Indian wars in mid 1700s. It is documented that he survived being scalped by a native that raided his house, by two British soldiers who ran into the house and shot the savage dead on the spot as he was in the middle of cutting Smalleys forehead. It was documented that Smalley carried the proof of the failed scalping for the rest of his life. This happened when he was in his 20s an he was known to show his forehead scar to anyone who was interested. He carried that forehead scar with him until he died at like 80 years old

@pcakes1878

Жыл бұрын

yup they tried to remove us but were still here😊

@bluescreen5678

Жыл бұрын

@@pcakes1878 Yeah, on reservations….😂

Not sure why this was recommended to me, but it had me glued to my screen for the whole thing.

We need more objective historians like this man! Great and fair video!

As an Apache I read and heard before Europeans came West, Apaches had a bounty of $50 for their scalps by the Mexican Government. Then later the US should go on to spend 2 million to stamp Apache attacks solely, not sure if they also offered this bounty for Apache scalps. This led to people wiping out non-Apache tribes for scalps and also Mexican villages to turn in as Apache scalps. That’s my knowledge of how the Apache at least came across the practice, but I know Plains tribes have had the practice of taking scalps as trophies to sew onto their shirts before the Europeans came

@Carandini

2 жыл бұрын

Recently it was revealed that in the US there was a colossal amount of fraud going on with regards to Apache attacks as well. The US government would pay restitution if your property was stolen or destroyed by Apache raids. So, a lot of people decided to grift. I've seen figures going as high as 90% of these payments were for fraudulent events, which in turn means that the 'marauding, murdering barbarians' view of the Apache, held by so many at the time, wasn't anywhere near the reality. s for the Apache taking scalps, I think they were introduced to the practice by Spanish scalphunters who were collecting the bounties. The Apache started taking the scalps of their own victims as a kind of reprisal.

@trendkill1891

2 жыл бұрын

@@Carandini I think I heard about that, not to that extent though and you are very correct. Also a huge factor was that the way our tribes were set up, many strains of Apaches that were essentially cousins of each other were spread out. Rarely having communication with each other unless banded together temporarily in groups of 40-60 warriors in warfare. So when settlers and governments would try to cut deals with an Apache tribe to quell attacks/raids, to them it seemed as if we weren’t cooperating when the next week a separate Apache band would tear through the area. Making it appear like we just didn’t honor our side of things, marking us as uncivilized savages that can’t be reasoned with. This phenomenon also made the Apaches appear magic, the papers and people thought we were one tribe so when the front page reported several Apache attacks within the same day and across hundreds of miles from each other. Everyone pinned these attacks on Geronimo, thinking him to be responsible for massively “coordinated attacks”. And I’ll tell you candidly, we were pretty bad back in the day. So they weren’t totally wrong😂 We were vicious, violent, and a naturally ANGRY people. There’s a reason why when the Mexican people came to what’s now part of America in like the 16th century( give or take, don’t quote me on the century) to find several tribes settled they quickly found the Apache people to be their biggest issue. Surrounding tribes like Pima and Hopi told them to watch out for them, the Mexicans gave us our name. ‘Apachu’ means enemy. We frequently raided and warred with other Apache bands along with everyone else, our society was structured based on plunder and “courageous acts of valor” among our members. From an early age you were trained to be hardened, akin to Spartan society. As a man if you came back from a raid without resources which could be anything from cloth, silver, guns, or horses then you were heavily ridiculed and insulted by your fellow warriors but also all of the women of the tribe. The tribe teemed with boasting excitement when a brazen act by a fellow Apache was displayed in warfare or on plunders. We took pride in being fierce. So by today’s standards and the standards back then all regard us as savages lol and kinda rightfully so. Grandma got a temper, dad had a temper, I got a temper, my children have tempers lol hot blooded folk, Southern Tonto Apache, First Semi-band from the settlement of Bylas

@alecbowman7738

2 жыл бұрын

The Japanese were more brutal than any tribe or group of white man.

@michaelbread5906

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder what it was like for the Apache when they first got the horse. Probably a similar feeling to the Mesopotamian's who first domesticated one thousands of years earlier.

@trendkill1891

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelbread5906 Lmao sure compared to that it means nothing but relative to the area it was crucial to their development and place within the West. Only them and the Comanche were privy to this “technology” and mastered it before other tribes in the area, effectively mobilizing a hornet’s nest. Idk if you’re mad I’m talking about Native history and not your’s or if you purposely are being obtuse lol but there is a rich and cool history regardless. Never heard of anyone hearing someone talk about Rome with facts and just a historical record and someone chiming in, “YeAhHh but what about the Japanese had numerous empires and dynasties rise and fall well before and after Rome.” Like ok, super off topic but alright😂

I’m so glad you touched on every point of scalping I was very glad you mentioned the spiritual part and the pre contact customs of scalping

@rileymcintosh4852

2 жыл бұрын

thanks for such a thorough research job

One of the most interesting videos I've seen in a long time!! Thanks for posting!!

The title actually made me watch this. Afterwards I learned you have a fun editing style and a charming personality!

That was a really great video. As an amateur historian, and KZread creator focusing primarily on western history, I found your video to be accurate and objective. You did not demonize or castigate anybody. You just presented the historical facts. Your storytelling and cinematography were exceptional. I look forward to the next video.

@TheStoryOutWest

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@krisztiankovacs6377

2 жыл бұрын

Elite level video.

@StoutProper

2 жыл бұрын

You're assuming this guy who has no sources other than trust me bro is correct

@WyomingTraveler

2 жыл бұрын

@@StoutProper yes, because his comments are in line with material I have read in the past. Hey, this is a KZread, we don’t give annotated bibliographies. If you think what is being said is incorrect, look it up, and then let the author know what you discovered.

@treeman47

Жыл бұрын

i feel like this is a good video but the fact that indian(which is a slur) is used instead of native american or a specific tribe is kinda sad and having sources in description.

I grew up on the Navajo reservation and I never heard of scalping as our tribe's practice, so it definitely was weird when I heard about it through my history class. However, it definitely helped put it into perspective when you talked about its role in ceremonies and in religious narratives. One of things I found weird though was conflicting views on scalping, not from Native American tribes but mainly for the American population. I found it weird some glorified the practice and mythologized the warrior spirit, and some (understandably) were disgusted but went the extra mile to condemn the native tribes and all of North American tribes as barbaric. One thing I'm glad you talk about was the massive commercialization of scalp taking. Vine Delora talked about bounties that California put up for each Native scalp and it would cause white settlers to raid Native tribes that didn't even participate in the practice and kind of drove home the point of the hypocrisy from settlers.

@robertcernea6976

2 жыл бұрын

@@sandman4663 Watch the video you dumbass

@arthas640

2 жыл бұрын

I'm always hesitant to listen to anything about native tribes without double checking the source. I've seen people using great plains tribal costumes for Inuit and pacific northwest tribes like the Chinook and Quinalt before even though the newest tribe to dress that way were hundreds of miles away in eastern washington and Idaho (the Nez peirce). I've seen the same with some media and Carib or mesoamerican cultures too since many peoples default image of natives are shag theyve seen in american western movies which were almost only great plain tribes

@drewkoenen8334

Жыл бұрын

I learned back in the 60’s as a small boy from my Catholic history teacher ,was that the Settlers from Europe set bounties for scalps. The government at the time also put a bounty on the Canadian Beotiks ( spelling) tribe from New Foundland and exterminated them. I’ve also seen pictures of native scalps on the belts of voyagers. History from a white privileged society will deny the facts and say the natives did it….I call B.S. I am sure the American museum in Washington (Smithsonian) will have thousands of native scalps in their archives.

@MG-fn9xw

Жыл бұрын

It’s definitely not bs drew. Go read Wt Hamilton’s diary “60 years with Indians” from his adventures in the early 1800s. Read James Ohio Patties diary from the 1820s. Read, “Life in the Rocky Mountains: A Diary of Wanderings on the Sources of the Rivers Missouri, Columbia, and Colorado from February, 1830, to November, 1835” by Warren Angus Ferris. The natives were doing all the scalping

@frankficcle7081

Жыл бұрын

​@@drewkoenen8334 Exuse me? You said that privileged white society denies the truth, putting all the blame for scalping on Native Americans but in the same comment said a catholic history teacher taught you European settlers put bounties on scalps. Now either your catholic history teacher wasn't white or you just said something very hypocritical. PS: my white school teachers taught me that scalping existed long before the discovery of America but was encouraged by some of the European governments.

What a gem of a channel. Great content! Subscribed.

First vid of yours I come across, instantly earned my sub!! Love the straightforward information with no silly music or irrelevant information

You left out that if scalped, the dead victim would be bald on “the other side” meaning in the spirit world. And to some natives that was a way to shame your enemy in perpetuity. If I had lived during those times I might have shaved my head just to remove the temptation.

@therezabjorklund353

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@BGdroopy

2 жыл бұрын

Is that why cholos shave their head?

@dontwatchmyvideostheysuckp9881

2 жыл бұрын

That would probably make it worse

@microwave4928

2 жыл бұрын

They would maybe turn their attention to your groin then Trust me they’d have found something

@genealogyandreceipts3385

Жыл бұрын

@@BGdroopy Cholos got Indian blood too 😂 so probably yes

Your channel is criminally underrated.

Spectacular video my friend,just fantastic!

I’m not gonna lie you had me @6:04 😂 I swore I knew the answer and ended up screaming laughing . I love history and how you betrayed it, new sub immediately 💯

Another good solid history class. I might comment in relation to the Jane McCrea incident, Burgoyne subsequently gave the word to his Indian allies / mercenaries that scalping would no longer be done. Since most of them had come with the expectation of adding to their "war trophies" they faded away soon afterward. Ref: Ketchum, R.M. "Saratoga". P 282. USMC emblem, shooting badges, Good Conduct Medal. A fellow gyrene I suspect. SF

@TheStoryOutWest

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Thank you for bringing that up. There’s only so much I can fit in a KZread video

@CosmicAli_TheObserver

2 жыл бұрын

It still happens, don't let nice words keep you in the dark. When people go missing on or around the Rez, they aren't found so people don't here about it. Last guy I remember hearing about was in '98. A man was found scalp less in an abandoned car outside Rocky Boy. They couldn't identify the body so nothing came of it. Rumor has it it was a stranger that came through town and was touching up the little ones. Very dangerous place, haven't been up there since.

@quintonseay6728

Жыл бұрын

What exactly is your understanding of “woke?”

Great video. Very professional and informative. You deserve a lot more subs!

Awsome video! Thankyou! I can tell this video was made by alot of research and some actual free thinking and i appreciate that.

Thank you for recording and posting this educational video.

I'm glad to learn that this was typically done only to the dead. I never knew this.

The American Indians scalped people, took land from other tribes and even owned black slaves to tend crops and work the fields. This is why so many black Americans have some American indian blood. In Ca they even used to set fires and burn Yosemite valley. It was a different world back then and their descendants had nothing to do with any of that any more than descendants of Europeans. We are all individuals living now making our way in the world. The American Indians I have known have been really cool people. I never felt like I had to worry about my scalp around them.

@freeto9139

2 жыл бұрын

Slavery was practiced by Mexican bands who stole the more docile natives in the SW as far as California. They took them back with them to Mexico, or sold them to the Spaniards, or others in South America.

@mochiebellina8190

2 жыл бұрын

Dont give em a couple drinks.

@Jason-sh1xu

2 жыл бұрын

@@mochiebellina8190 don’t tempt me with a good time

@lonelyb9661

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Before the Bill of Rights was invented and abolition was created people acted like they lived in a world where people didn't believe in the Bill of Rights or abolition. The more a broad view one takes of humanity the more moral progress reveals itself.

i was not bored hearing this man

This takes I got your weave to a whole another level

A fine tradition that, in my opinion, needs to be revived and expanded.

@chlorine5795

2 жыл бұрын

I like the foreskin one better

@chlorine5795

2 жыл бұрын

Get a trophy and some action.

@jayr7890

2 жыл бұрын

Lol gonna get smoked in a second 😂

@PunkMartyr

2 жыл бұрын

When Satan logs into youtube

@bobross3880

2 жыл бұрын

Alright. You and your friend/family first :) lead the way!

8th grade science teacher said during the war in Vietnam us troops would end up getting flayed and in turn Americans would take ears, noses and yes even foreskins of enemy combatants.

You deserve to much much more viewers. Great video!

What a well researched & highly informative review! The topic made me nauseous but, overall, nice video!

I just subscribed. Thank you for this awesome historical information with the pictures too. I have not seen much Native American pictures from the 1800s like this it’s amazing. Much appreciated cheers 🍻

Slight correction, the Scythians were a nomadic indo-European people who moved all over the place, but the royal scythians (most legitimate and authoritative tribe) lived in what is now modern Ukraine, on the Black Sea steppe. Some scythians who were rejected from the royal scythians traveled far south and would become the founders of the Parthian empire.

@mrbaab5932

2 жыл бұрын

There are Scythian sites found as far east as the area northeast of Mongolia.

@anon2427

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrbaab5932 yeah even as Far East as Korea. Some of the scythians would found the Parthian empire (parthoi, meaning “outcast”). Earlier indo-european tribes spread out from the Atlantic to the pacific, from the Arctic circle to Varanasi and beyond. Really a truly incredible group of people.

@connoroverall580

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrbaab5932 There is a theory that early Bronze Age sites near Lake Baikal can be attributed to the Scythians.

@MuFu23

Жыл бұрын

@@mrbaab5932 If you're talking about the Pazyryk burials, those are actually located northwest of modern-day Mongolia, in what is now the Altai Republic of Russia. If you're referring the Arzhan site, that one is slightly further east, placing it north of Mongolia, but not so far east as to be northeast of Mongolia. If you're talking about some other site(s) I don't know of, then I'd really like to know what it's referred to as, so I can look into it. Learning about this stuff is always interesting!

@MuFu23

Жыл бұрын

@@anon2427 I'm 99% sure there is no strong genetic, linguistic, or archeological evidence that the Scythians ever reached Korea, though their cultural influence may have done so to some extent. Same goes for Indo-Europeans ever reaching the Pacific, though obviously that excludes their later descendants.

Great content, subscribed, hope the algorithm blesses you brother

I did learn some things I did not know, thank you for this fascinating video. Also I subscribed

People really do suck. The things we have done to each other, and still do, are horrific.

@michaelbetsch9700

2 жыл бұрын

Right

@djl5634

2 жыл бұрын

It's human nature to wage warfare. Lions kill. Tigers kill. Dogs kill. Bulls kill. Humans kill

@twomp5613

2 жыл бұрын

We really don’t suck tho we’re no better or worse then any other animals

@shaunsteele8244

2 жыл бұрын

@@twomp5613 except we're not animals, we're humans

@henryrogers5500

2 жыл бұрын

@@shaunsteele8244 Correct. The problem is evil in the hearts of men. Animals have no moral conscience, humans do. The problem is sin and a willful rejection of God and His moral law. A rejection of His Son, Jesus Christ.

Wonderful presentation! So wonderful to find somebody that knows how to get the crowd interested and to learn some history at the same time is awesome! I have a stage 4 disease and don't have much to look forward to these days but I'm definitely going to be looking forward to your videos you post. Thank you for giving me something to look forward to on a side note who autographed the box guitar the background? Blessings to you and your loved ones and anybody else that read this.👍💯🍻

Thank you for trying to give a balanced view of history

Fascinating video, sir. Also, I am surprised there was ever a theory that scalping was brought by the Europeans. I mean was it so hard to believe the Native Americans started it? Heck! My ancestors in Nigeria of the Edo tribe had a practice of beheading their war enemies and keeping them as trophies for a time and they were not the only ones. Keeping trophies is a cultural practice most of humanity has done for several millennia.

@hensonlaura

Жыл бұрын

Current fashion demands demonizing whites 🤷‍♀️

@Hmfirestormz

Жыл бұрын

Saying Europeans brought it was made up, It’s called white guilt. White people love feel guilty over things there ancestors did in order to feel superior

@nayomio4895

Жыл бұрын

Wow I’m edo and I had no idea 🤯

@orboakin8074

Жыл бұрын

@@nayomio4895 Yeah, my friend. It was same for me too. I had to actively research it myself but my dad also told me some of the history.

Christianised, Normanised, Welsh ‘knights’ were still taking Irish raider’s heads in the 1200s. A good head or a good warrior’s head had to have a good crop of hair.

@farthuffington6466

2 жыл бұрын

Male pattern baldness guys can't catch a break

@Justin-pe9cl

2 жыл бұрын

There is a certain romance to head hunting in the stories of warriors.

In my tribe it was said that a warrior has to prove himself by bringing back the head of his enemy as proof of kill. However since travelling through thick forest area with human heads was impractical due to the weight and the chances of attracting scavengers and predators, taking the scalp was accepted and that was how scalping started for us. So it would not be far fetched to think that other people also started doing it due to the same reason.

@teekey1754

2 жыл бұрын

They've not discovered wheel or metal smelting.

@ihala2141

2 жыл бұрын

@@teekey1754 the wheel was already Discovered in the americas, but without big tamed animals such as cows it was pretty much useless, the inca liked using them to make toys tho

@teekey1754

2 жыл бұрын

@@ihala2141 I meant useful wheel.

@travisjohn4630

2 жыл бұрын

@@ihala2141 So I guess you've never used a wheelbarrel? Or waggon? LOL.

@conorkelly947

2 жыл бұрын

Why would a scalp not attract preditors?

Amazing story , i heard alot of scalping and knew that there were some kind of reason why they scalped their victim's but u thought there would be more to know about scalping ,thanks for sharing 😁

Wonderful video, presentation and examples. Cheers

Excellent explanation. Thanks for the video 👍

I bought a used pick-up truck recently and I got scalped, it still happens.

@TJBall-go3gv

2 жыл бұрын

I would like to hear your story. Maybe you got scalped by buying a lemon!?

@schallrd1

2 жыл бұрын

I like scalped potatoes.

@teekey1754

2 жыл бұрын

@@schallrd1 Scalloped ?

@cruzaider5339

2 жыл бұрын

You same I ate some scallops and got verbally scalped for not paying

Very informative. Well put together

Yes KZread, thank you for recommending this on a Friday afternoon.

I didn't go on KZread today looking to learn about scalping, but after reading the video title I got curious.

Great video! I love the study of peoples through out history, what is true and not Hollywood

Thanks for this thorough historical video

Hey man, thank you. This was a very informative vid

Nice, factual and informative, as usual. Thanks again.

The book called The Frontiersmen by Allan Eckert describes scalping in detail, including freshly cut bloody scalps from captive victims being smeared in the faces of their family members or other captives. Great book that details the absolute brutality of the American frontier in the mid to late 1700s.

@JasonSmith-sz6pp

2 жыл бұрын

A proper scalp in some tribes is through the first 20-30 cm of bone from the top of skull not just flesh and hair.

@masonhester9393

2 жыл бұрын

@@JasonSmith-sz6pp youre saying they take 8 to 12 inches of bone with a scalp?

@schallrd1

2 жыл бұрын

Good book to read as a bedtime story.

@douglasbubbletrousers4763

2 жыл бұрын

@@masonhester9393 I think he meant km

@nipplecream3099

2 жыл бұрын

@@masonhester9393 Jason seems a bit thickheaded

I’m First Nations of Canada and we used the scalps to power our cars back then. Our ancient nations used other scalps for fuel as we developed the technology to extract the fine oils from scalps.

Very interesting, I had heard that Europeans started the scalping practice. Thank you for this video

Nice informative video! This is a very brutal process and a terrible way to die, mostly from infection I would suppose if you did survive once scalped. Keep up the Great Work fellow frontiersman, cheers!

I've seen and felt a real man's scalp before. he was a redheaded individual. It was at Philmont, NM, when I was in the boy scouts. No telling how old that crusty scalp was or the story of the man's life who had owned it

@DemonPrinceofHell

2 жыл бұрын

Was he a biker?

@hunterswepic

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve felt many scalps, including my own.

@justinakers3196

2 жыл бұрын

No. It a 100+ year old scalp of a man who had it cut off by indians

Great video dude!

The earliest historical reference to scalping that I can remember is the Scythians, a Central Asian and East European nomadic tribe, closely related to the Thracians and Dacians. It's said they would scalp their enemies and adorn their horse saddles and chariots with them. They would also flay their enemies and make flags, arrow quivers and gloves from their skins. There are even older archeological remains of scalping going back hundreds of thousands of years. I think at an inherent level, it represents taking someone's power. Like the myth of Samson having his hair cut, which makes him weak. Hair often symbolizes spiritual power, so taking it on such an extreme level as scalping is sorta like making a trophy of someones spirit.

This was fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

My father's late uncle served alongside the Gurkhas in the burmese jungle and told a story about how they would collect Japanese ears.

@John-uy4jx

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that seems about right. I had a green beret martial arts instructor who served in Vietnam he said he had guys who scalped, cut off ears and collected fingers. He said it was mostly guys from the Deep South, Great Plains or more rural parts of America because they saw it as no different than taking antlers from a buck or a beard from a turkey. He also told me like 95% of the time they were “white trash” red necks or “battle hungry Indians” although the black dudes and Mexican guys also participated but to a lesser extent.

Great storytelling. Easy to follow along.

@ladyhonor822

Жыл бұрын

🎉 cheers mate. Philadelphia USA 🇺🇲 AMEN ☦️❤️🙏

Greetings from Mexico... an excellent video and you got a new subscriber. In Mexico, first the Spanish and later the mexicans adopted the practice of scalping, in the northern territories the authorities bought indian scalps for pesos made of silver, the scalp of an adult male was worth more than the scalps of females or children, but were also accepted. The mexican government give the reward to anyone who bring indian scalps, mexicans, texans, even other indians traded with indian scalps.

An amazing in depth video. Thank you for posting. I thought the Europeans brought scalping to North American tribes but obvs wrong.

The Arikara and Pawnee tribes are actually one in the same. A group of Pawnee stayed behind while another traveled North up the Missouri River during the 1700’s I believe. I could be wrong on the exact time, but they still consider each other relatives.

Convenient. I just thought about that last week, now I know why

Scalping was a thing in the Balkans as well. Up until the late 19th century several Balkan people's (especially people who lived in tribal organizations, or who were transitioning into a proper state from a tribal society). Eventually due to pressure from Western Europe the practise went out of favour. First headcutting was exchanged in favour of cutting off the nose. Evebtually the practise was forbidden outright by 1876. Edit: to be clear im speaking for my country's history (Montenegro) I'm not aware of that oractise being popular in other states and societies, but I don't know enough to make any meaningful comment

@adrianafamilymember6427

2 жыл бұрын

That's that's interesting Maybe I'll visit Montenegro from the U.S one day

@coltonuribe8617

Жыл бұрын

Least horrific Balkans tradition

@ladyhonor822

Жыл бұрын

I know I know call me insane😱. VLAD THE IMPALER !!!🙀 Philadelphia USA 🇺🇲 AMEN ☦️❤️🙏🌍🍯🌹🎶🎸 Mutter museum... It's apparent I have an accent.

I never thought of it that way but that makes a lot of sense.

Just the video I was looking for

Also, I really appreciate your presenting, you should definitely broaden your content or have other channels, you're very comfortable and it translates well. (and you also remind me of a few actors who I can't quite name)

The Pechenegs, and other peoples of the Russian steppe, used to make drinking cups from the skull of an honoured, formidable enemy, who had won respect through ferocity in combat.

Awesome video. Scalping was here well before the Europeans.

Nice jazz master, and very good way of storytelling

Awesome channel glad I found it.

The practice was done by many tribes in the North American natives. However, as I have learned later, it was not done by the Apache clans and tribes and my Navajo friend it was not done among their peoples as well. It due to their fear of spirits and the wandering ghost of the dead and touching them.

@et76039

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds about right; have heard the same thing. Apaches and Navajos came from a northerly region before migrating to the southwest, which would explain differences in customs from their neighbors. Their bows were said to resemble Eskimo bows.

@adamcrowdog8163

2 жыл бұрын

Cole, it was my people who scalped our enemies. However we Cheyenne are not the only people in history to take heads or scalps. Celts did, scythians did many different asian peoples have and parts of Africa have so the whole history of scalping isn't modern by any means. Celts and many other peoples tied the scalps to the horses bridal to show his trophies and his power as a warrior. Cheyenne did it as well. It was one of my descendants that put an arrow through Custer's chest. My family has a body part of his...

@adamcrowdog8163

2 жыл бұрын

Cole, yes some feared the spirit of the person coming back. The Navajo are a VERY religious spiritual tribe. Also do keep in mind that the Mexicans and Americans also had been paid bounties for Apache scalps. Most were woman and children and elderly people who couldn't run fast enough. California used to display these scalps in San Jose, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Testimony says that this was common practice in the 1800s.

@coleparker

2 жыл бұрын

@@adamcrowdog8163 I don't disagree. In fact I made the same point about the Celts and Scythians and Norse and the Maoris of New Zealand, not to mention the headhunting in various Pacific Islands and South America. Human body part trophy collecting against one's enemies is a fairly universal trait.

@adamcrowdog8163

2 жыл бұрын

@@coleparker very true. People have been doing it for thousands of years.

Love these videos thank you so much for making them

@TheStoryOutWest

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy them!

Ok. I liked. But don't let success change you. That's what we want. A regular person just giving us history lessons. Perfect.

Awesome vid. Thank you sir.

On The Britannica website: Archaeological evidence for such practices in North America dates to at least the early 14th century; a mass grave from that period, containing nearly 500 victims (some with evidence of scalping), was found near present-day Crow Creek, South Dakota (U.S.). That was native on native violence. The Native Americans should not be played up to be peaceful pacifist when they weren’t just like the rest of the world. There are good and bad people everywhere.

Del Gue from Jeremiah Johnson asked him "Don't you want some of these?"when they went after his ponies that the Blackfeet had stolen, then puts the scalps on Johnson's horse. That was supposedly a famous painting of a Dakota warrior with that scalp that was either done by Seth Eastman or another one of the Indian painters. Arikira or "Ree"were enemies of Lakota (Sioux) I bet it was a scalp frenzy when they fought. "Counting coup" was a power move too, damn I wished I lived back them, "The Dutch traded for silver because the English traded with wampum and Brandy" ~Uncas "Last of the Mohicans."

Bringing a whole new meaning to "I like ya cut G"

People scalped each other in Eastern Europe during the reniassance. It was considered a trophy, especially from duels. Most soldiers/nobles in the polish Lithuanian commonwealth kept their heads shaved at the time, cossacks famously kept a lock of hair on their heads as a dare to do it.

Well made video, thank you.

The fore skin info had me rolling. Everything else was also informative 👍🏼

@glenmartin2437

2 жыл бұрын

Foreskins is in the Bible. David collected some 10,000 from the Philistines at the request of King Saul.

@moosemilk8956

2 жыл бұрын

@@glenmartin2437 that’d be an ugly trophy room

@JoeMama410

2 жыл бұрын

When every Israelite was circumcised, foreskins were a good way to prove that you had killed non-Israelites.

@theinfjgoyim5508

Жыл бұрын

And then they eat them... Suck just the tip and they still do it today. Nasty "Satanists".

@robingoudy6401

Жыл бұрын

​@@moosemilk8956 🤣

6:08 Interesting you bring this up. During our time in the middle east a lot of soldiers, mainly reported in special operations units, picked up a practice called canoeing. Similarly to scalping its a way to desecrate a body and bring status to whoever got the kill.

My Irish family has a story that comes from before they came to America. In this story a relative was scalped at a young age. A pig was killed and shin from between his front shoulders was place over the wound and supposedly it attached it's self and couldn't be removed when it was unbandaged.

@RankStankulon

Жыл бұрын

Found this comment fascinating 👍 thanks for sharing

@trippplecup1563

Жыл бұрын

That’s wild

@MuFu23

Жыл бұрын

When you say "attached" what do you mean? Like, it dried out and got stuck on there..?

@jaychapman2045

Жыл бұрын

@@MuFu23 I can't be sure because it was a really old story but what I got from it is that it grew to him or maybe his skin scar tissue held it there im really not sure. When I heard it I believed it was alive on him but as an adult that seems very unlikely.

@MuFu23

Жыл бұрын

​@@jaychapman2045 Yeah that was sort of my reaction as well. The first ever successful skin graft/transplant was done in 1869, and that was from one area of a person to another area of the same person, by a professional surgeon with advanced (for its time) medical equipment, so for the tissue to have stayed alive, some kind of freak miracle must have occured. I'm no doctor or scientist though, just a big ol' nerd.

Interesting historical summary of scalping but what might be missed here is the main reason for the older typical American Western movie reference to scalping that was going on in the early frontier wilderness was initially incentivized by the British as is shown @ 8:07. In their seeking to discourage American settlers spreading to the Northwest, they crafted and provided the Native Americans with their Tomahawk's (see the warrior's belt in the illustration), and offered to PAY then for each American scalp. Knowing the the Americans reacted to either adversary in kind.

@freeto9139

2 жыл бұрын

That's truly diabolical! 😲