Newt struck up a conversation with the woman in Iroquoian language. After chatting for a while, the woman came to Dumbledore and the others.
"Man, are you the leader of these people?"
The woman communicated with Dumbledore in English.
Dumbledore looked at Newt. Newt immediately said to Dumbledore: "This is Polona Huron, the next head of the Huron people. She is here for her coming of age ceremony. Yours Showing up ruined the rite of passage and prevented her from hunting enough scalps.”
This sentence made everyone shudder. Why hasn't the religion hunted enough scalps? Does the coming-of-age ceremony need to be so bloody?
It was as if he could see Dumbledore's doubts.
Polona looked at them and laughed, and then she stepped on a tree next to Dumbledore. She reached out and touched her delicate boots and said: "Only the warriors of America are allowed to hold us." If they use their scalps in exchange for rewards, aren’t we allowed to use their scalps to make our own boots?”
The tradition of scalping was originally a tradition of the Indians themselves, originating from the ancient beliefs and worldview of the Indians. They believe that the human soul resides in the hair and scalp. After killing the enemy, peeling off the enemy's scalp can frighten the enemy and prevent their souls from doing evil. It is also equivalent to holding the enemy as a hostage, so that the enemy's descendants will not be able to do evil. Dare to act rashly.
This is just a belief determined by the original world view of the Indians. However, in the 18th century, which was influenced by the Renaissance and baptized by the Industrial Revolution, scalping was legislated by the enlightened white people.
In 1703, the New England colonial authorities set a bounty of 40 pounds for each scalp. Due to the intensity of the war, the bounty for each scalp was increased to 100 pounds in 1720. In 1723, the Massachusetts colonial authorities paid a 100 pound bounty for each Indian scalp. Colonial authorities in Pennsylvania paid a bounty of 130 Spanish silver dollars for the scalp of every male Indian over the age of 12 and 54 Spanish silver dollars for the scalp of every female Indian.
If these are just the behaviors of the colonies themselves, then in 1814, the American government issued a hunting ordinance for Indians, rewarding brave men (or butchers) who dared to scalp Indians, with a male Indian scalp worth 100 pounds. , a female Indian scalp was worth 50 pounds. This law was gradually improved and became the infamous "Indian Removal Act." The prosperous America launched a systematic attack on North American Indians with a modern war machine. Sexual destruction, hundreds of Indian tribes, ushered in their end.
At the same time, the Taos Land Tenure Act was used to grant land to the Indians, allowing them to become homesteaders like white Americans. This broke the collective ownership of primitive communes and the organizational structure of Indian society, and weakened the authority of tribal leaders. For Indian culture, this is a step that will bring the fire under the kettle. This means that after the white people completed their military conquest of the Indians, they further destroyed their culture and social organization.
Then the "Curtis Act" was introduced, which was a "tutorial policy" for Indians, including compulsory education for Indian children. With the support of the government, white educators opened Indian schools to accept Indian children. In the schools, in addition to learning English, the children must also participate in Christian worship and other activities. This "enlightened" authoritarianism aimed to completely change the Indians' lifestyles, values and even religious beliefs.
There has long been a joke in America: when white people came to the North American continent in the 17th and 18th centuries, they had almost nothing except a Bible in each hand; the local Indians did not have a Bible. But it has a large area of fertile land. Through various forms of transactions, a hundred years later, the Indians each held a "Bible" in their hands, but no land; while the white people not only acquired the Indians' land, but also retained the "Bible" in their hands. Bible".
It can be said that the establishment of America was based on the policies and methods of genocide against Indians. After thoroughly dealing with the Indians, they pretended to repent.
“I and all other Americans live and work on land that was recently stolen from others, and we do this by killing anyone who dares resist us and then taking their property for ourselves "When I first realized this, I immediately cast doubt on the standards I had accepted for crime and punishment, justice and injustice, property and theft, legality and illegality."
However, no one said that they should restore the Indian system and territory, because repentance only requires a few tears, and restoring the Indian system and land would kill people, so they are always just repenting, not make up.
Zhuo Qun told Dumbledore these things before he came here, letting him know about the Indians and America. Now she understood a little bit why Zhuo Qun said that the Indians would be their allies. .
But what Zhuo Qun actually said is that in America, all races except white people may be their allies. Even among white people, those poor white people will be their allies.
Because there is no one in America who doesn’t want to participate in a zero-dollar shopping event and will not refuse the benefits.
Dumbledore looked at the boots and said, "They are really beautiful boots. I just don't know which one is more beautiful compared to Washington's boots."
"Man! Are you irritating me?"
When she heard Washington's boots, Polona immediately exploded, and the people in the sky, the Thunderbird Knights, also raised their spears and pointed them downwards.
Polona shouted a few times in Iroquois, and the creatures in the jungle ran out one by one, and once again surrounded Dumbledore and the others.
The atmosphere was extremely tense for a while.
"It is said that Muggles in America named an armed helicopter after Apache. Do you think this is to commemorate that great warrior, or to show off? Look at Apache being conquered by us!"
Dumbledore whispered in Polona's ear: "Do the Hurons want to return to their homeland? If so, we can talk!"
After listening to Dumbledore's words, Polona turned to look at him and said, "Man, you are playing with fire, you know. The Hurons will not sacrifice their lives for the fight of you white people. We will not participate in your affairs."
Polona knew very well that no white person was trustworthy, so she would not believe Dumbledore. And Newt only communicated with him because he was recognized by Thunderbird, but they couldn't believe Dumbledore. .
"You don't have to help, then you won't have a chance to get your land back. We are not the same as the people in America. We are wizards, and we are here to change the world."
Dumbledore looked at those people and animals, and somewhat understood what Zhuo Qun said before he came here.
"When faced with great changes and interests in the world, which one will the people of America choose?"
Their appearance will change the world, and the company Zhuo Qun asks them to deal with is of huge benefit. It is really not easy to choose between the two.
According to Dumbledore's understanding, people in America would probably choose to expose their interests and not let Cha Chao change the world, because profits can be earned again, and Cha Chao's appearance may make those people fall into the quagmire.
But now that he saw what happened to the Indians, his heart was shaken. Would the Americans choose to protect their interests?
