Different views on this Subject—Modern System of
Government—Ancient System of Government—Tribal Government
universal in North America—The Indians not Wandering
Nomads—Indian houses Communal in character—Indian Methods of
Defense—Mandan Villages—Indians sometimes erected Mounds—Probable
Government of the Mound Builders—Traditions of the Mound Builders
among the Iroquois—Among the Delawares—Probable fate of the Mound
Builders—The Natchez Indians possibly a remnant of the Mound
Builders—Their early Traditions—Lines of resemblance between the
Pueblo Tribes and the Mound Builders—The origin of the
Indians—America Inhabited by the Indians from a very early
time—Classification of the Indian Tribes—Antiquity of the Indian
Tribes.