Last night, I watched a sick western movie w/ Natives scalping settlers

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17. THIS is a fact - Europeans appropriated the practice from the Native Americans

Author and historian Mark van de Logt wrote, "Although military historians tend to reserve the concept of 'total war'", in which civilians are targeted, "for conflicts between modern industrial nations," the term "closely approaches the state of affairs between the Pawnees, the Sioux, and the Cheyennes. Noncombatants were legitimate targets. Indeed, the taking of a scalp of a woman or child was considered honorable because it signified that the scalp taker had dared to enter the very heart of the enemy's territory."[13]


Scalping Knife and Sheath, probably Sioux, early 19th century, Brooklyn Museum
Many tribes of Native Americans practiced scalping, in some instances up until the end of the 19th century. Of the approximately 500 bodies at the Crow Creek massacre site, 90 percent of the skulls show evidence of scalping. The event took place circa 1325 AD.[14]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalping

I do not want a back-and-forth on this. I totally agree with you about the atrocities that were branded on the Natives and that are still being done. HOWEVER, you were in error to attribute scalping to the invading Europeans . They picked up the horrifying practice from the people that they were subjugating.