Marisa’s Reviews > From Office Boy to Reporter > Status Update

Native Americans used to make their prisoners run the gauntlet, often with death at the end

Tidbit - "to run the gauntlet" is to take part in a form of corporal punishment in which the party judged guilty is forced to run between two rows of soldiers who strike out and attack them.

This is super fascinating--the origin of the "chip on your shoulder" phrase -
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/c...