The upshot the article is that there was the good people of the west dealing with the bad people of the west through lynchings, imprisonment. Coming into someone else's land is, I believe, stealing. Panther's article talks about Justice, for wantonly taking another's life was giving up your own. Panther also suggests that there were again the mass of good people and the few bad. Might some of that Choctaw and Seminole justice have been directed against those who would have sold out Native American cause to the whites.
Panther always has whites stealing cattle from other whites.
The fact of corrupt Indian agents and the disappearance of food rations is never mentioned. The great hostility of the white press is never mentioned. The press of the times wrote how to kill of large numbers of Indians and return later for their scalps. The Arizonan pushed for bounties on Indian scalps. The Rocky Mountain News pushed for action just before the Sand Creek Massacre.