The following episode will deal with stories and depictions of torture and war.

These things I would not recommend for people that are faint of heart or for young children.

It's a very mature theme and topic.

It's a hard thing to discuss also, because we can't really wrap our heads around and understand why an entire society would think that it's all right to mutilate and torture people.

We hope that this episode will help understand the mindset of the time and culture.

That's not to pick on Native American peoples and say that they were inferior or barbaric

compared to European peoples, because they weren't.

Europeans and Africans and Asians had their own different horrible ways to deal with

enemies.

This episode is to remind us that people are people.

There's good people and evil people and good things and bad things in all cultures.

And yes, I'm talking about even to this day in American culture, European culture, Asian culture, African culture.

These things are still under the surface and in every man and woman's heart.

The reason we need to tell these things is so that it is not repeated. Summer had just peaked. August was a few nights away.

Maticulously, he spread across his face and body pigments of red and black.

He fixed his headdress of three large eagle feathers upon his crown. Looking down, he reached for his finely chiseled axe of stone, blunt yet strong.

He grasped the handles with his fingers, recalling to mind how many moons it took to carve the rock,

to bore the hole in the head, and then to place it in a sapling, waiting for the tree to grow inside the tool.

His mind began to wander back, thinking about how many of his family and clan had passed on since he started making the axe.

The village in the nation was much smaller than it had been before.

His town needed more people if it was to survive. This was his chance to improve himself among the Mohawk people. This was a chance to help those who were grieving, those who had lost

sons and daughters. He arose and walked out of the home and straight for the center of his town.

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