The Hidden Children by Robert William Chambers Chapter 10 Page 8

Of this kind of people, then, were the Iroquois, naturally — not, alas, wholly so after the white man had drugged them with rum, cheated them, massacred them, taught them every vice, inoculated them with every disease.

For I must bear witness to the truth of this, spite of the incredulity of my own countrymen; and, moreover, it is true that the Mohicans were, in all virtuous and noble things, the peers of the civilised people of the Long House.

Those vile, horse-riding, murdering, thieving nomad Indians of the plains — those homeless, wandering, plundering violators of women and butchers of children, had nothing whatever in common with our forest Indians of the East — were a totally different race of people, mentally, spiritually, and physically. And these two species must ever remain distinct —