The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person.

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

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

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

Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.