Were the Indians really noble ?

[KukriKhan]

One word: Scalping.

Not an exclusively Native American practice:
http://home.comcast.net/~burokerl/scalping.htm

For some North American tribes, a European tradition, adopted.

And a translation:

Gawain of Orkeney wrote: Well we alweays here how noble and in touch with nature the idians were and that it the fault of the evil whiteman that their almost gone now. Heres another take on the matter

"Well, we always hear how noble and in-touch with nature the Indians were, and that it (is) the fault of the evil whiteman that they're almost gone now. Here's another take on the matter."