Of the New York Indians J. Buchanan wrote (II., 104): 

“that it is no offence for their married women to associate with another man, provided she acquaint her husband or some near relation therewith, but if not, it is sometimes punishable with death.”

Of the Comanches it is said (Schoolcraft, V., 683) that while “the men are grossly licentious, treating female captives in a most cruel and barbarous manner,” upon their women “they enforce rigid chastity;” but this is, as usual, a mere question of masculine property, for on the next page we read that they lend their wives; and Fossey (Mexique, 462) says:  “Les Comanches obligent le prisonnier blanc, dont ils ont admire le valeur dans le combat, a s’unir a leurs femmes pour perpetuer sa race.”  Concerning the Kickapoo, Kansas, and Osage Indians we are informed by Hunter (203), who lived among them, that

“a female may become a parent out of wedlock without loss of reputation, or diminishing her chances for a subsequent matrimonial alliance, so that her paramour is of respectable standing.”

Maximilian Prinz zu Weid found that the Blackfeet, though they horribly mutilated wives for secret intrigues [violation of property right], offered these wives as well as their daughters for a bottle of whiskey.  “Some very young girls are offered” (I., 531).  “The Navajo women are very loose, and do not look upon fornication as a crime.”

“The most unfortunate thing which can befall a captive woman is to be claimed by two persons.  In this case she is either shot or delivered up for indiscriminate violence” (Bancroft, I., 514).

Colonel R.I.  Dodge writes of the Indians of the plains (204): 

“For an unmarried Indian girl to be found away from her lodge alone is to invite outrage, consequently she is never sent out to cut and bring wood, nor to take care of the stock.”

He speaks of the “Indian men who, animal-like, approach a female only to make love to her,” and to whom the idea of continence is unknown (210).  Among the Cheyennes and Arapahoes

“no unmarried woman considers herself dressed to meet her beau at night, to go to a dance or other gathering, unless she has tied her lower limbs with a rope....  Custom has made this an almost perfect protection against the brutality of the men.  Without it she would not be safe for an instant, and even with it, an unmarried girl is not safe if found alone away from the immediate protection of the lodge” (213).

A brother does not protect his sister from insult, nor avenge outrage (220).

“Nature has no nobler specimen of man than the Indian,” wrote Catlin, the sentimentalist, who is often cited as an authority.  To proceed:  “Prostitution is the rule among the (Yuma) women, not the exception.”  The Colorado River Indians “barter and sell their women into prostitution, with hardly an exception.” (Bancroft, I., 514.) In his Antiquities of the Southern Indians, C.C.  Jones says of the Creeks, Cherokees, Muscogulges, etc. (69):