Soldiers hacked off body parts and kept them as trophies—fingers, toes. They cut out labias and stretched them over saddles and hats. Scalps were kept, and handed down one generation to the next.” The book posed a question: How could modern members of these tribes ever heal from the atrocities committed against their people when the bones and scalps and body parts taken that day continued to circulate, in families and private collections around the country?
