Directly in front of me, children who were no larger than I hung themselves upon the packs of their seats, with their bold white faces toward me. Sometimes they took their orefingers out of their mouths and pointed at my moccasined feet. Their mothers, stead of reproving such rude curiosity, looked closely at me, and attracted their hildren's further notice to my blanket." This is evidence that settlers treated Native mericans with cruelty, and had no respect for their emotions