The Osage Indians

The Osage Indians

I think there is no difference between Indians and Whites. It’s not important what color and from what nationality you are, it’s the point that we are all humans and all from one planet-the earth-that is important.
I agree with Irving’s writing. He describes the Indians without any prejudice.
The Indians might seem stony-faced as Parkman describes them but it’s only from the outside and it’s not true within. They too, like other human beings have feelings and emotions. As Irving brings in his writings that the Indians had boisterous merriment at their games and sat round a fire until at night, engaged in the most animated and lively conversation, and at times they made the woods resound with pleas of laughter.
I don’t believe in Parkman’s words that the Indians are untrustworthy and treacherous, because in Irving’s writing the Indian who found the white man’s horse hadn’t stole it, but brought it back to its owner. And it was the white man who instead of thanking him accused him of theft and wanted to lash him by the “lynches law”.
In another part Parkman says Indians are icy and taciturn, but they are not like that. Its only, according to Irving, when they are in the company of people who they distrust that they are careful of their actions, and so may seem unsociable but that’s how all of us act when facing the may be enemy.
As for the part where Parkman indicates that Indians are unbending, we can see the contrary in Irving’s writing for the Indians have accepted some of the white men’s new ways, like drinking coffee and having farmhouses instead of tents.