A few decades after the first Thanksgiving, the first known colonial scalping order was issued. Hundreds of bounties were paid in the following century. The Penobscot Nation in Maine produced an educational film to ensure that history isn't whitewashed.
Members of the Penobscot Nation in Maine have produced an educational film addressing how European settlers scalped — killed — Indigenous people during the British colonial era, spurred for decades by cash bounties and with the government’s blessing.
At the heart of the project is a chilling declaration by Spencer Phips, lieutenant governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Both Europeans and Native Americans engaged in scalping, but English colonists greatly expanded the practice when the government sanctioned the effort with bounties, the filmmakers said.
Emerson Baker, a Salem State University professor who specializes in New England history, called the tribal education effort “a powerful course correction.” In “Bounty,” the three participants describe having nightmares of Penobscots being chased through the woods, and discuss the dehumanization and massacre of their people.
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