Most of them will take a kitchen spoon or fork, if they have a chance--and they think it fair thus to return the peculations of the whites.

They probably have an idea of making up for the low price at which their lands have been valued, by maintaining a constant system of petty thefts--or perhaps they consider kitchen utensils as curiosities, just as the whites do their mocassins and necklaces of bear's claws.

Yes--it must be confessed, however unsentimental, they almost all steal.
The men think it undignified for them to steal, so they send their wives thus unlawfully to procure what they want--and wo be to them if they are found out.

The husband would shame and beat his wife for doing what he certainly would have beaten her for refusing to do.

As regards the honesty of the men, I give you the opinion of the husband of Checkered Cloud, who was an excellent Indian.