16.  See Parkman’s “Conspiracy of Pontiac”; also “Montcalm and Wolfe.”

17.  Bouquet, like so many of his predecessors and successors, greatly exaggerated the numbers and loss of the Indians in this fight.  Smith, who derived his information both from the Indians and from the American rangers, states that but eighteen Indians were killed at Bushy Run.

18.  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.  The young are so trained that when old they shall find their keenest pleasure in inflicting pain in its most appalling form.  Among the most brutal white borderers a man would be instantly lynched if he practised on any creature the fiendish torture which in an Indian camp either attracts no notice at all, or else excites merely laughter.

21.  See Appendix A.

22.  Similarly the Crows, who have always been treated well by us, have murdered and robbed any number of peaceful, unprotected travellers during the past three decades, as I know personally.

23.  It is precisely the same at the present day.  I have known a party of Sioux to steal the horses of a buffalo-hunting outfit, whereupon the latter retaliated by stealing the horses of a party of harmless Grosventres; and I knew a party of Cheyennes, whose horses had been taken by white thieves, to, in revenge, assail a camp of perfectly orderly cowboys.  Most of the ranchmen along the Little Missouri in 1884, were pretty good fellows, who would not wrong Indians, yet they tolerated for a long time the presence of men who did not scruple to boast that they stole horses from the latter; while our peaceful neighbors, the Grosventres, likewise permitted two notorious red-skinned horse thieves to use their reservation as a harbor of refuge, and a starting-point from which to make forays against the cattlemen.