Note 41 — Chapter I

The language used in the text is fully justified by the accounts referred to. Students of Indian habits dispute the despotism of the Suns, and allege that the hereditary aristocracy does not differ materially from what may be found in other tribes. See Lucien Carr’s paper on “The Mounds of the Mississippi Valley historically considered,” extracted from Memoirs of the Kentucky Geological Survey, ii. 36, note. See also his “The Social and Political Position of Woman among the Huron Iroquois Tribes,” in the Report of Peabody Museum, iii. 207, et seq.