Note 53 — Observations, and arguments, in proof of the American Indians being descended from the Jews. (continued 4)

“The Indians never used to eat a certain sinew in the thigh. The name of this sinew in Cherokee is u-wa-sta-to. Some say that if they eat the sinew they will cramp in it [the same sinew] on attempting to run.” Buttrick, Antiquities of the Cherokees, 12. Further corroborated by Hodgson, Letters from North America, I, 224, and as to the Canadian Indians by Frazer, Golden Bough, VIII, 265. Also, see Mooney, Sacred Formulas, 323, Myths, 447.