Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.

But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.