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.
Conquistadors were the Spanish soldiers that invaded and took lands from the Indians.
English and Spanish soldiers invaded and took lands from Indians.
The Cherokee tribe lived by the Mississippi river and Ohio river. The forced relocation of the Cherokee Indians which assisted them in crossing the bodies of water was called Trail of Tears.
Bow and arrows, Tomahawks, leftover guns and tnt left by American Soldiers in the 15-18th centuries.
History considers the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890, to be the end of the free Indian. This was where a band of about 350 Indians were gunned down by soldiers. Most of the men, women and children were slaughtered and their bodies left in the snow until they could be recovered several days later.