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.

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

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.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

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.