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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1740748" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p>Author and historian Mark van de Logt wrote: "Although military historians tend to reserve the concept of “total war” for conflicts between modern industrial nations, the term nevertheless most closely approaches the state of affairs between the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawnee_people" target="_blank">Pawnees</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sioux_Nation" target="_blank">Sioux</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyennes" target="_blank">Cheyennes</a>. Noncombatants were legitimate targets. Indeed, the taking of a scalp of a woman or child was considered honorable because it signified that the scalp taker had dared to enter the very heart of the enemy's territory."</p><p></p><p>Most tribes of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" target="_blank">Native Americans</a> practiced scalping, in some instances up until the end of the 19th century. Of the approximately 500 bodies at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow_Creek_massacre" target="_blank">Crow Creek massacre</a> site, 90 percent of the skulls show evidence of scalping. The event took place <em>circa</em> 1325 AD.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1740748, member: 12952"] Author and historian Mark van de Logt wrote: "Although military historians tend to reserve the concept of “total war” for conflicts between modern industrial nations, the term nevertheless most closely approaches the state of affairs between the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawnee_people']Pawnees[/URL] and the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sioux_Nation']Sioux[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyennes']Cheyennes[/URL]. Noncombatants were legitimate targets. Indeed, the taking of a scalp of a woman or child was considered honorable because it signified that the scalp taker had dared to enter the very heart of the enemy's territory." Most tribes of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States']Native Americans[/URL] practiced scalping, in some instances up until the end of the 19th century. Of the approximately 500 bodies at the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow_Creek_massacre']Crow Creek massacre[/URL] site, 90 percent of the skulls show evidence of scalping. The event took place [I]circa[/I] 1325 AD. [/QUOTE]
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