Keeley’s Reviews > My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting > Status Update

"The Cheyennes were and are to-day a proud and brave people. Their domestic habits were commendable and could be followed to advantage by many white families. To violate the marriage vow meant death or mutilation. This is a rule which does not apply to all tribes."

1 - I am heavily resisting the urge to immediately derail reading progress and go rabbit-hole into research on Native American sign-talking; 2 - choice of language is already telling: saying they "reclaimed" the western land when they'd not laid claim prior definitely shows the land entitlement perspective of settlers and colonizers.