Featured MP3 Podcast "Scalp bounties were the payment of a fee
for proof of death of an Indian, any Indian, on a graduated
scale. At the top of the scale they would pay the highest amount
for proof of death by way of the production of a scalp, or
bloody red skin - origin of the term 'red skins' - of an adult
male Indian. Half that fee would be payed for proof of death by
the same means of a adult female, quarter to be payed for proof
of death of a child, child being defined as as a human being
under 10 years of age down to and including a fetus.. every
single colony on the east coast, every state of the Union and
territory of the United States within the confines of the 48
contiguous states, had in place, in some period of its history,
a scalp bounty - removed usually when there were no longer
sufficient number of Indians left to kill to warrant its
continuation..that's as absolutely clinical a genocidal policy
as is possible to envision, they weren't interested in any
particular Indians, any Indians would do