The Wild Frontier (51 page)

Dutch reported Indian eating wife and children

Tonkawas killed Comanche and made stew of him

Lipans cooked a Comanche

New England Indians gnawed flesh from settlers

Mohegan sachem ate Narraganset sachem

Thumb of Father Jogues cut off

Indians made a hole in victim’s breast and sucked blood from it

Delaware Indians massacred Dutch settlers

Indians in Massachusetts flayed settlers alive, cut off members and joints and broiled them, and ate flesh of others in their sight

Indians roasted settler in Massachusetts to death

Indian tribes gave English the heads of Pequots

During the Beaver Wars, Iroquois captured by Hurons and killed by torture. Iroquois chief Ononkwaya roasted, scalped, thrown into the fire, hands and feet amputated, and finally decapitated

Hurons burned Iroquois to death

Mohawk severed the heads of Wappinger Indians

Mohawk tortured additional Wappingers to death for public amusement

Mohawk hacked babies to death, threw others in the water to drown, amputated hands and legs

Susquehannock Indians tortured Maryland soldiers

Iroquois hacked Father Daniel’s body apart and threw it in the fire

Armed Indians killed settlers in retaliation for killing of Indian pulling peaches off tree

Esopus Indians burned Dutch soldiers alive

Cheyenne scalped workers; one survived

Heads of settlers put on poles at King Philip’s village

Nipmucs captured a settler on a peace mission, be-headed him, and stuck his head on a pole in front of his horne

Massachusetts towns attacked by Indians; men and women settlers scalped, their skins flayed

Captain Beers and his men were beheaded by Indians, who put their heads on poles

Narraganset Indians murdered settlers at Lancaster, Massachusetts

Indians killed settlers in dispute over an account

Indians burned an Iroquois to death

Indians in Maine cut off fingers and slashed chest of fur trader Major Richard Waldron

French-Canadians and Indians attacked Schenectady, hacking men, women, and children to death

Abnakis and French massacred soldiers in Maine who had surrendered on condition of safe conduct

Abnakis smashed the baby of Hannah Duston against a tree

Abnakis and Mohawk killed settlers in Connecticut

Cherokee presented king of England with scalps

Shawnee tortured by cutting off his thumbs, pulling out his nails, burning prisoner’s feet, legs, genitals, with red-hot gun barrels, stuck pine splinters into him and set them on fire, scalped him, and ran hot gun barrels up his rectum

Apache killed older women, took prisoners horne where women could shoot them with arrows and rifles, cut off arms and legs, scalped

Indians ate Miami chief Memeskia

Indians ate Captain Donahew and others

Indians scalped Snider family, tomahawked and scalped Snider’s servant, scalped Adams family, raped Mrs. Adams, scalped a trader and ate him, scalped and disemboweled prisoners who had escaped, then burned them to death and buried another in a hole, scalped him, burned him to death, and cut off his head

Indians took 20 scalps

Mohawk brought scalps from Braddock’s defeat

Prisoners burned to death by Mohawk

Indian scalped Englishman

Indians killed settlers, according to John M’Cullough memo

An Indian woman who had fled to the settlers was stripped, tied to a post, and hot irons applied

The Delaware tortured and killed Simon Girty’s stepfather and killed his mother

Indians put prisoner into kettle and forced others to eat him and compelled mothers to eat the flesh of their children

Indians scalped the dead and ate some of them

Indians scalped Captain Spikeman, who was beheaded and his head put on a pole; another prisoner was stuck with pine needles, which were set afire; and a third had his intestines cut open and was forced to walk around a sapling until he died

Montcalm took Fort William Henry and promised soldiers safe conduct, but Indians killed or took prisoner as many as 1,500

Delaware Indians killed Thomas Potter, then a small child who was scalped, then Samuel Hunter, who was also scalped, and Daniel M’Manimy, who was burned, then his scalp was put on a pole before his face and finally red-hot gun barrels and a bayonet were passed over his body

Scottish soldiers beheaded and heads put on stakes

Shawnee burned settlers and put their burned heads, arms, and legs along shore of Ohio River

Pontiac’s Rebellion resulted in many settler deaths

Settlers murdered by Indians at Detroit

At Fort Michilimackinac, which was captured by Chippewa and Sac, a lieutenant was beheaded, the dead scalped and mangled, the dying tomahawked, some bodies ripped open and Indians drank their blood, 5 knifed to death by a Chippewa chief, and the fattest cooked and eaten

Commander of the garrison at Venango tortured for 3 days by Iroquois, then roasted to death by the Seneca

Chippewa chief Wasson scalped Captain Campbell

Captain Dalyell was killed; Pontiac’s men cut out his heart, wiped it on prisoners’ faces, cut off his head, and mounted it on a pole

Pontiac served French settlers body of a British soldier, then showed them his severed head

Sioux scalped Mandans

The Boggs baby was not permitted to nurse, was thrown into the road intermittently, was sometimes kicked, then murdered and scalped

Indians seared prisoner’s body with heated gun barrels, scalped, hot coals applied to his skull, one end of his intestines tied around a tree around which he walked until they were all drawn out, his genitals cut off, and a hot gun barrel thrust into his heart

A Wyandot and another Indian friendly to the British escorted American Jane MacCrea to a British post to meet her British fiance. The Indians tomahawked and scalped her. Her scalp and that taken from an American officer were taken to the Indian camp

The Wyoming Valley Massacre took 360 settler lives at the hands of the Iroquois, and the British commander Butler claimed 227 scalps were taken

British colonel Hamilton claimed he bought 110 scalps that year alone

Indians attacked Cherry Valley, New York, and some engaged in cannibalism

Major Moses Van Campen’s father and brother were scalped; he found an Indian village that had scalped 3 families

Manheim twin sisters stuck with splinters dipped in turpentine and burned

Mohawk struck town of Minisink, burning 12 houses

Iroquois captured Oneida chief Hanyerry, hewed his body to pieces, and impaled his scalped head on a branch; at same time, Lieutenant Boyd was captured, his fingernails pulled out, nose and tongue cut off, eye gouged out, genitals cut off, and he was skinned alive and beheaded

Colonel Lochy and some of his men tortured by Mohawk

Indians attacked town of Goshen and scalped all 17 hospital patients and their physician

Sutler Potts was scalped, hung upside down on a sapling, then cut open so that his intestines hung down over his head

Settlers burned at the stake by Wyandots

Kwakiutl Cannibal Society bit flesh from arms of those watching them dance, then ate a slave

Indians scalped Mrs. Wallace, her infant, and John Carpenter near Raccoon Creek

Delaware women and boys tomahawked prisoners

Delaware tortured Colonel Crawford: Powder was shot into his body from feet to neck, his ears cut off, his body burned with sticks, burning coals thrown on him, he was scalped, a squaw put more coals on his back and head, and his body burned almost to ashes

The Reverend Corly’s family was scalped by Indians

Shawnee and Mingos killed captives by burning, the bodies of 3 given to the dogs

Settlers killed in Little Turtle’s War in the Old North-west

Scott family killed by Indians in Virginia

This prisoner of the Indians was burned from all sides by women with torches; when he fell unconscious, he was scalped, dismembered, and all his extremities, including his genitals, cut off

Grandfather of Abraham Lincoln killed by Indian in Kentucky

Tecumseh and his men scalped at Drake Creek

British colonel Hamilton bought these white scalps

Medicine man Aiskawbawis ate his wife

Indian showed Ironside the heart of a settler whom he had killed

Charles Builderback, who had murdered Indians at Gnadenhutten, and his wife were captured; he was slowly emasculated and dismembered

Johnston was captured, and others also captured scalped by Indians, then 6 more killed, 2 of whom were scalped by Indians

Miamis killed prisoners

William Flinn was burned at the stake and eaten by Miamis

Abner Hunt was tied to a log, stretched out, a fire built around him, knife slits made in his body, and hot coals put in the slits

Mingos captured boats on the Ohio River and killed passengers

Daniel Greathouse, who allegedly murdered part of the family of Mingo chief Logan, and his wife were captured by Mingos, pieces of their intestines lashed to a sapling, and they were made to walk around it until they died

Officer Richard Butler was captured by Shawnee, who killed and scalped him, then cut out his heart and divided it into 14 pieces so that each tribe in the battle could eat it