"Have you? If not, what qualifies you to judge her conduct as anything other than savage?"
Uhm, no. That's why I didn't judge her. I said that I hadn't been through it so I couldn't say that she was a savage for doing it. It's just interesting to me that someone who didn't live at that time and has no idea what she went through would stand up and say how they are so much better than her.
"The Indians who murdered her child were probably honored by their people at the time as well. So?"
Wow. The point is easily lost on you. I know that public school has tried to instill the idea that all cultures are equally good but it's not true.
The settlers of that time would have had similar values to ours, whereas these Indians would not have. This is seen in a cursory reading of history of that time period. That's why the opinion of the settlers is significant to us and the opinion of the Indians is not. We have much in common with the settlers and not much in common with Indian tribes like this one, although there were other tribes which had values closer to ours.