Note 50 — Chapter II · - THE IROQUOIS GENS.
Reading edition
In Letters on the Iroquois by Skenandoah, published in the American Review in 1847; in the League of the Iroquois, published in 1851; and in Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family, published in 1871. (Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, vol. xvii.) I have used tribe as the equivalent of gens, and in its place; but with an exact definition of the group.