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To: PROLIFE who wrote (702)	7/7/1999 7:02:00 PM
From: truedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

to: DCF from: truedog Dee Brown tries to get as much perspective of the Indian point of view as he could from delving into old information, some passed down orally, some pictographs, old treaties broken by the whites, and numerous visits to reservations to talk to the old ones. It gives a different slant but does concentrate on White/Indian encounters. From some histories I have read, the primary fighting between tribes was over hunting grounds to insure the food supply for their own tribe. Many conflicts were resolved by counting coup and resulted in only minor injuries. They were taught to scalp by the French in order to keep count to earn the bounty on the dead English in the French and Indian War. Word of this practice then found its way West and influenced other tribes. The bloodiest fights between different tribes resulted from some reason for revenge, such as a brave from one tribe raping a woman from another. There will probably never be a way to know their history very much farther back because of the lack of writing. I wish there were. TD