Note 18 — Observations, and arguments, in proof of the American Indians being descended from the Jews.
Reading edition
For the Cherokee’s use of eagles’ tails in the reception of Sir Alexander Cuming (1730) see: Williams, Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 126; and for Timberlake’s account of the eagle-tail dance: Memoirs, 107; also, Mooney, Myths, 281, 492-3, and Hodge, Handbook, I, 409.