Talk:Danks' Rangers
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Scalping
To be clear, I so appreciate your work on the Gorham Rangers and Dank Rangers pages - they are impressive in detail and fill in an important part of the regions military history.
The French were not only interested in native scalps - they paid for British scalps as the record books in Louisbourg indicate. The British only paid for native scalps, in part, because the mi'kmaq were the military power in the region - not the Acadians. Both sides (natives and europeans) expressed dismay at the barbarity of the other sides atrocities (i.e., killing non-combatants). Super-imposing 20th century terms like genocide, ethnic cleansing or even racism does not help illuminate the complexity of the 17th-18th century warfare. At the least, such assertions need to be referenced.--Hantsheroes (talk) 09:05, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
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