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Largest Child-Sacrifice Graveyard Strikes Huge Blow to Native American Innocence Myth
liberals insist that the story of European colonization is a simple narrative of good versus evil: horrible Europeans came upon innocent Native Americans, introducing slavery, exploitation, and oppression.
Many native tribes in the area that would become the United States also practiced human sacrifice. The Pawnee practiced an annual Morning Star Ceremony, which included the sacrifice of a young girl — until the 1800s.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2019/11/01/largest-child-sacrifice-graveyard-strikes-huge-blow-to-native-american-innocence-myth-n70100
Conclusive evidence of American Indian cannibalism found
As many as 40 sites scattered around the Southwest contain human bones that show distinctive evidence of having been butchered and cooked - signs consistent with cannibalism.
Sep 7, 2000
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20000907&slug=4041058
Sacrificial virgins of the Mississippi
"Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi,"
it also seems clear that political and religious power in Cahokia revolved around another ancient tradition. Cahokians performed human sacrifice, as part of some kind of theatrical, community-wide ceremony, on a startlingly large scale unknown in North America above the valley of Mexico.
August 6, 2009
https://www.salon.com/2009/08/06/cahokia/