One must live among them to induce them to impart any information concerning their mode of life or religious faith; to a stranger they are always reserved.
Their dances and feasts are not amusements.

They all have an object and meaning, and are celebrated year after year, under a belief that neglect will be punished by the Great Spirit by means of disease, want, or the attacks of enemies.

All their fear of punishment is confined to what they may suffer in this world.

They have no fear of the anger of their deities being continued after death.

Revolting as the ceremony of dancing round a scalp seems to us, an Indian believes it to be a sacred duty to celebrate it.