They are almost invariably coarse and ugly, with the exception of their eyes, with a peculiarly awkward gait, and forms bent by burdens.

This gait, so different from the steady and noble step of the men, marks the inferior position they occupy.

I had heard much eloquent contradiction of this.

Mrs.
Schoolcraft had maintained to a friend, that they were in fact as nearly on a par with their husbands as the white woman with hers.
"Although," said she, "on account of inevitable causes, the Indian woman is subjected to many hardships of a peculiar nature, yet her position, compared with that of the man, is higher and freer than that of the white woman.

Why will people look only on one side?
They either exalt the red man into a demigod, or degrade him into a beast.