if you were captured by a bunch of natives its the easiest way to die. i bet you irl these girls would've give everything to be offed like that. and its not about scalping at all. natives would've tortured you as horrible and long as possible, sitting around and watching you scream like crazy agonyzing in unimaginable pain. and pray men torture you, because from what we know the native women were the ones inflicting most wreched, heinous, abominable tortures lasting for hours and sometimes days. for example, they could've hang you above a fire, high enough, and sloooowly cook to death for hours. or cut to small pieces, similar to chinese death by thousand cuts, and on and on. these women would've been captured and viciously raped and beaten for a perioud of time this warband wanted, days or weeks. then brough back to camp and given to native women. some - not needed - would've been horribly tortured to death, some kept as slaves for the rest of their misirable lives living in hell. so, yeah. that was quiet merciful and uncharacteristic on that wbm.
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