Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America

A History Forgotten

George Franklin Feldman

• Publisher: Alan C Hood & Company
• Year: 2023
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781493082025
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

This riveting volume dispels the sanitized history surrounding Native American practices toward their enemies that preceded the European exploration and colonization of North America. We abandon truth when we gloss over the clashes between Native Americans and Europeans, encounters of parties equally matched in barbarity, says George Franklin Feldman, We neglect true history when we hide the uniqueness of the varied cultures that evolved during the thousands of years before Europeans invaded North America. The research is impeccable, the writing sparkling, and the evidence incontrovertible: headhunting and cannibalism were practiced by many of the native peoples of North America.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Temples of the Sun—The Taensa and Natchez
• 2 “I Receive You with Love”—The Calusa and Timucua
• 3 Sons of the Morning Star—The Skidi Pawnee
• 4 “Curses on You, White Men!”—Pilgrims and Indians
• 5 Promises to the Sun God—The Iroquois
• 6 A Chief for Dinner—The Chippewa
• 7 Arms and Legs for Sale—The Nootka
• 8 Life for Life—The Kwakiutl
• 9 Anomalous Californians—The Yuki and Their Neighbors
• 10 “But, If Not Starvation, What?”—The Anasazi
• 11 “Go Warpath to Texas”—The Comanche
• 12 Shrinking Leather Thongs—The Apache
• 13 “It’s the Hand of God”—White Scalp Hunters
• 14 The Past in the Present
• Endnotes
• Bibliography