During the entire history of America until the turn of the twentieth century, Indigenous Americans were hunted, killed, and forcibly removed from their lands by European settlers.This includes the paying of bounties beginning in the colonial period with, for example, a proclamation against the Penobscot Indians in 1755 issued by King George II of Great Britain, known commonly as the Phips Proclamation.The proclamation orders, “His Majesty’s subjects to Embrace all opportunities of pursuing, captivating, killing and Destroying all and every of the aforesaid Indians.” The colonial government paid 50 pounds for scalps of males over 12 years, 25 pounds for scalps of women over 12, and 20 pounds for scalps of boys and girls underTwenty-five British pounds sterling in 1755, worth around $9,000 today —a small fortune in those days when an English teacher earned 60 pounds a year.Well, the term scalp offended the good Christian women of the community and they asked that another term be found to describe these things. So, the trappers and hunters began using the term redskin...they would tell the owner that they had bearskin, deer skins....and redskins. The term came from the bloody mess that one saw when looking at the scalp...thus the term red...skin because it was the skin of an animal just like the others that they had...so, it became redskins. So, you see when we see or hear that term...we dont see a football team...we dont see a game being played...we dont see any honor...we see the bloody pieces of scalps that were hacked off of our men, women and even our children...we hear the screams as our people were killed...and skinned just like animals. - Gray Wolf
Posted on: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 01:01:18 +0000
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