Free The Wild Frontier by William M. Osborn

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Deaths Caused by Specific Indian Atrocities
Date
Number of deaths *
Brief description of the atrocity
1511-12
3+
Dutch reported Indian eating wife and children
unknown
1
Tonkawas killed Comanche and made stew of him
unknown
1
Lipans cooked a Comanche
unknown
2+
New England Indians gnawed flesh from settlers
c.1625
1
Mohegan sachem ate Narraganset sachem
c.1630
1
Thumb of Father Jogues cut off
unknown
1
Indians made a hole in victim’s breast and sucked blood from it
1632
32
Delaware Indians massacred Dutch settlers
c.1637
6+
Indians in Massachusetts flayed settlers alive, cut off members and joints and broiled them, and ate flesh of others in their sight
1637
1
Indians roasted settler in Massachusetts to death
1637
2+
Indian tribes gave English the heads of Pequots
1638-84
4
During the Beaver Wars, Iroquois captured by Hurons and killed by torture. Iroquois chief Ononkwaya roasted, scalped, thrown into the fire, hands and feet amputated, and finally decapitated
1639
113
Hurons burned Iroquois to death
1643
80
Mohawk severed the heads of Wappinger Indians
1643
30
Mohawk tortured additional Wappingers to death for public amusement
1643
8+
Mohawk hacked babies to death, threw others in the water to drown, amputated hands and legs
1644
2
Susquehannock Indians tortured Maryland soldiers
1648
1
Iroquois hacked Father Daniel’s body apart and threw it in the fire
1655
2+
Armed Indians killed settlers in retaliation for killing of Indian pulling peaches off tree
1659
8
Esopus Indians burned Dutch soldiers alive
unknown
5
Cheyenne scalped workers; one survived
1675
8
Heads of settlers put on poles at King Philip’s village
unknown
1
Nipmucs captured a settler on a peace mission, be-headed him, and stuck his head on a pole in front of his horne
1675
4+
Massachusetts towns attacked by Indians; men and women settlers scalped, their skins flayed
1675
37
Captain Beers and his men were beheaded by Indians, who put their heads on poles
1675
12
Narraganset Indians murdered settlers at Lancaster, Massachusetts
1675
36
Indians killed settlers in dispute over an account
1676
1
Indians burned an Iroquois to death
1689
1
Indians in Maine cut off fingers and slashed chest of fur trader Major Richard Waldron
1690
60
French-Canadians and Indians attacked Schenectady, hacking men, women, and children to death
1692
100+
Abnakis and French massacred soldiers in Maine who had surrendered on condition of safe conduct
1697
1+
Abnakis smashed the baby of Hannah Duston against a tree
1703
49
Abnakis and Mohawk killed settlers in Connecticut
1721
4
Cherokee presented king of England with scalps
1729
1
Shawnee tortured by cutting off his thumbs, pulling out his nails, burning prisoner’s feet, legs, genitals, with red-hot gun barrels, stuck pine splinters into him and set them on fire, scalped him, and ran hot gun barrels up his rectum
c.1750
6+
Apache killed older women, took prisoners horne where women could shoot them with arrows and rifles, cut off arms and legs, scalped
1752
1
Indians ate Miami chief Memeskia
1754
3
Indians ate Captain Donahew and others
1754
17
Indians scalped Snider family, tomahawked and scalped Snider’s servant, scalped Adams family, raped Mrs. Adams, scalped a trader and ate him, scalped and disemboweled prisoners who had escaped, then burned them to death and buried another in a hole, scalped him, burned him to death, and cut off his head
1754
20+
Indians took 20 scalps
1755
75+
Mohawk brought scalps from Braddock’s defeat
1755
12
Prisoners burned to death by Mohawk
1755
1
Indian scalped Englishman
1755-59
95
Indians killed settlers, according to John M’Cullough memo
1756
1
An Indian woman who had fled to the settlers was stripped, tied to a post, and hot irons applied
1756
2
The Delaware tortured and killed Simon Girty’s stepfather and killed his mother
1757
3+
Indians put prisoner into kettle and forced others to eat him and compelled mothers to eat the flesh of their children
1757
2+
Indians