Note 16 — Observations, and arguments, in proof of the American Indians being descended from the Jews.

See preceding note. A native halfbreed Cherokee, Elias Boudinot, a very intelligent man and at one time editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, says of his people: “They cannot be called idolaters, for they never worshipped images.” Foster, Cherokee Literature, 11. Of the Choctaws, Israel Folsom, a Choctaw, says: “They never worshipped idols, and believed in the existence of a Great Spirit.” Cushman, History of Choctaws, etc., 362. Whatever may have been the case with the Southern Indians of historic times, it cannot be denied that the mound-builders had idols. This, numerous excavations fully prove.