I have heard the Iroquois were unusually cruel to other tribes and were feared and hated by them.
So much for the peaceful, happy natives myth.
Slaves from Kentucky who ventured west to Nicodemus, Kansas said the Osage People were kind, gave them fish, helped them prepare for winter and were helpful. Apaches and Comanches were given to kidnapping. The Apaches kidnapped Mexican Rancheros children and sold them to the Kiowa. This I have on good sources.
“I have heard the Iroquois were unusually cruel to other tribes and were feared and hated by them.”
Most of the American Indian tribes were brutal. The LAST thing any white wanted was to be captured by an Indian band.
To those tribes torture was entertainment. For instance, a Comanche captive was often tortured in a fiendish manner, but the object was to keep the poor victim alive as long as possible to prolong his or her agony.
After the Council House fight the Comanches took out their pique on some dozen captives they were holding, torturing them to death in a most barbaric fashion: The six-year old sister of Mathilda Lockhart — who had herself suffered incredible brutality at the hands of the Comanches before her rescue — was skinned alive and roasted over a fire until she died.