Репост из: Canada The Unknown Country
Scalping was not always fatal. Robert McGee survived being scalped by the Sioux at the age of 13 in 1864. He was also shot several times with arrows and guns, and remembered being conscious when he was scalped. Against the odds he survived. Evidence for scalping in the Americas goes back to at least 300 AD, and its instigation did not originate with the arrival of Europeans, as some often try to say.