Most of the plains Indians feel in the same way at present.

I was once hunting with a Sioux half-breed who illustrated the Indian view of the matter in a rather striking way, saying: "If there were a dozen of you white hunters and you found six or eight bears in the brush, and you knew you could go in and kill them all, but that in the fight you would certainly lose three or four men yourselves, you wouldn't go in, would you?
You'd wait until you got a better chance, and could kill them without so much risk.

Well, Indians feel the same way about attacking whites that you would feel about attacking those bears." 19.

All the authorities from Smith to Harrison are unanimous on this point.
20.

Any one who has ever been in an encampment of wild Indians, and has had the misfortune to witness the delight the children take in torturing little animals, will admit that the Indian's love of cruelty for cruelty's sake cannot possibly be exaggerated.