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.

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.

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.

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

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

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