text: the dutch gave the native american the gift of scalp...!!!!our ancestors NEVER EVER scalped anyone until the dutch came over and then indian scalps were worth munny....hence-women,and children were scalped and sold becos I guess the buyers wuddnt know the difference between the young and old...indian ways never scalped anyone..when this attrocity happened,our eastern ancestors thought it was the white way so they followed the WHITE traditions..only to be deeemed heathens and redskinned murderers....anywasy thats the story I got from a dutch friend of mine many years ago..because his father and grandfather from south dakota were proud to tell this...scarry huh?they were sure proud to tell it..