MoosKY] NOTES AND PAUALLELS 5()i 



the Cherokee, altliough all their woods anil waters are peopled by invisible fairy 

 tribes. This ajipears to be oharaeteristic of Indian mythologies generally, the giants 

 being comparatively few in nnmber while the "little people" are legion. The 

 Iroqnois have a story of an invasion by a race of stony-skinned cannibal giants from 

 the west (Schoolcraft, ^'otes on Iroijnois, p. 260). Giant races occur also in the 

 mythologies of tlie Xavaho (.vlatthews, Navahcj Legends), Choctaw (Gatschet, Creek 

 Migration Legend), and other tribes. According to the old Spanish chroniclers, 

 Ayllon in 1520 met on the coast of South Carolina a tribe of Indians whose clnefs 

 were of gigantic size, owing, as he was told, to a special course of dieting and mas- 

 sage to which they were subjected in infancy. 



107. The lost Cherokee (p. 391): This tradition as here given is taken chiefly 

 from the Wahnenaiihi manuscript. There is a joersistent belief among the Cherokee 

 that a portii m of their people once wandered far to the west or southwest, where they 

 were sometimes heard of afterward, but were never again reunited with their tribe. It 

 was the hope of verifying this tradition and restoring his lost kinsmen to their tribe 

 that led Sequoj-a to undertake the journey on which he lost his life. These tradi- 

 tional lost Cherokee are entirely distinct from the historic emigrants who removed 

 from the East shortly after the Revolution. 



Similar stories are common to nearly all the tribes. Thus the Kiowa tell of a chief 

 who, many years ago, qtiarreled over a division of game and led his people far away 

 across the Rocky mountains, where they are still living .somewhere aliout the British 

 border and still keeping their old Kiowa language. The Tonkawa tell of a band of 

 their people who in some way were cut off from the tribe by a sudden inroad of the 

 sea on the Texas coast, and, being unable to return, gradually worked their way far 

 down into Mexico. The Tuscarora tell how, in their early wanderings, they came to 

 the Mississippi and were crossing over to the west side by means of a grapevine, when 

 the vine broke, leaving those on the farther side to wander off until in time they 

 became enemies to those on the eastern bank. See Mooney, Calendar History of the 

 Kiowa Indians, Seventeenth Annual Report Bureau of American ICthnology, part 1, 

 and The Last of Our Cannibals, in Harper's Magazine, August, 1901; Cusick, quoted 

 in Schoolcraft, Notes on the Iroquois, p. 478. 



108. The m.^ss.'^cre op the Ani'-Kvta'ni (p. .392): Swimmer, Ta'gwftdihl', Aydsta, 

 and Watford all knew this name, which Ayitsta pronounced Ani'-KwCda'iii, but none 

 of them could tell anything more definite than has been stated in the opening sen- 

 tence. The hereditary transmission of priestly dignities in a certain clan or band is 

 rather the rule than the exception among the triljes, both east and west. 



109. The war medicine (p. 393): The first two paragraphs are from Wafford, the 

 rest from Swimmer. The stories are characteristic of Indian belief and might be 

 paralleled in any tribe. The great Kiowa chief, Set-iingya, already mentioned, was — 

 and still is — hclie\ed by his trilie to have possessed a magic knife, which he carried 

 in his stomach and could jiroduce from his mouth at w ill. The Kiowa assert that it 

 was this knife, which of course the soldiers failed to find when disarming him, with 

 which he attacked the guard in the encounter that resulted in his death. 



110. Incidents of personal herois.\i (p. 394): The incident of the fight at Waya 

 gap is on the authority of the late Maj. James Bryson, of Dillsboro, North Carolina, 

 born in 1818, who had it from his great-uncle, Daniel Bryson, a member of William- 

 son's exjjedition. 



Speaking of the Cherokee "War Women," who were admitted to the tribal councils, 

 Timberlake says (Memoirs, p. 70): "The reader will not be a little surpri.^^ed to 

 find the story of Amazons not so great a fable as we imagined, many of the Indian 

 women being as famous in war as powerful in the council." 



111. The Moi'NDS and the constant fire: The old sacred things (p. .395) : What is 

 here said concerning the mounds, based chiefly upon Swimmer's recital, is given solely 



