I thought the Indian tone of feeling was not rightly appreciated--their customs not clearly stated, perhaps not fairly estimated.

The red man, considered generally as a creature to be carried about and exhibited for money, was, in very truth, a being immortally endowed, though under a dispensation obscure to the more highly-favored white race.

As they affirmed a belief in the traditions of their tribe, with what strength and beauty of diction they clothed their thoughts--how energetic in gesture! Alas! for the people who had no higher creed, no surer trust, for this and for another world.
However they may have been improved, no one could have had better opportunities than I, to acquire all information of interest respecting these Indians.

I lived among them seven years.

The chiefs from far and near were constantly visiting the Fort, and were always at our house.
Not a sentiment is in the Legends that I did not hear from the lips of the Indian man or woman.