In Canada, the American colonies, and Mexico, governments paid a handsome sum for the scalps of Native men, women, and children. 3 In eighteenth-century New Hampshire, you could earn one hundred pounds for every male Native scalp you turned in, fifty pounds for each scalp of a Native woman, and twenty-five pounds for the scalp of each Native child. 4 These were not individually named Native people who were wanted for particular crimes—the reward was for any Native scalp, for no other reason than the act left the world with one less Native person. — Mediocre, pg 23