Yet if the husband is a prime hunter, whose time is precious, the woman herself, or her female relations, go out and seek the game where It has been killed.

When a man dies, his widow wears mourning during two or four years; the same case happens with the widower, only his duties are not so strict as that of a woman; and it often happens that, after two years, he marries his sister-in-law, if there is any.
The Indians think it a natural thing; they say that a woman will have more care of her sister's children than of those of a stranger.

Among the better classes of Indians, children are often affianced to each other, even at the age of a few months.

These engagements are sacred, and never broken.
The Indians in general have very severe laws against murder, and they are pretty much alike among the tribes; they are divided into two distinct sections--murder committed in the nation and out of the nation.
When a man commits a murder upon his own people, he runs away from his tribe, or delivers himself to justice.

In this latter case, the nearest relation of the victim kills him openly, in presence of all the warriors.