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    Who started the practice of scalping?

    Question #28060. Asked by long hair. (Feb 12 03 9:02 PM)


    cocomojoe

    		The answer is the Brittish. they paid Indian tribes in North america for every Frenchman killed. The way they got proof was the scalp of the frenchmen. The Indians were taught this practise by the Brittish.

    Feb 12 03, 9:13 PM
    Friar Tuck

    		In the 11th century, the Earl of Wessex scalped his enemies. When the English and the Dutch came to the New World they brought the custom with them. This activity was brought not so much as an official method of warfare, but as a bounty to ease the anger of the frontiersmen.

    Feb 12 03, 9:16 PM

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