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in this, according to Indian notions, was only rendering due respect to her lord and master. No requirement of Indian etiquette was more imperative than this, that an Indian woman should not be seen eating with her husband. It was her duty to wait upon and serve him, and afterwards provide for herself. It made no difference how wealthy she was, or how many servants she might have to wait upon her, she never presumed to put herself upon an equality with her husband or to be served before him.Thiswasnotan invariable rule, as more than one Indian woman took her place at the head of her white husband's table and there welcomed his guests, but this was not common and was generally confined to Indian women married from tribes East of the Rocky Mountains.