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they believed it would inpaire their spirits in the afterlife and they would be forced to walk the earth for eternity and could not go to heaven. it was also a form of revenge for earlier battles and massacres.

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Native Americans usually believe that you enter the afterlife with whatever body you had as you died, so they mutilated the bodies of other warriors to keep those warriors from coming after them and being able to fight in the afterlife.

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