The Myths of the New World / A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America

by Daniel G. Brinton

[149-1] Martius, Von dem Rechtzustande unter den Ureinwohnern Brasiliens, p. 28, gives many references.

[149-2] Id. ibid., p. 61.

[149-3] Le Livre Sacré des Quichés, Introd., pp. clxi., clxix.

[149-4] Travels in Yucatan, i. p. 434.

[150-1] Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v. pp. 416, 417.

[150-2] Mrs. Eastman, Legends of the Sioux, p. 161.

[151-1] Rel. de la Nouv. France, 1634, p. 27; Schoolcraft, Algic Researches, ii. p. 116; Ind. Tribes, v. p. 420.

[151-2] De Smet, Western Missions, p. 135; Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, i. p. 319.

[151-3] Mrs. Eastman, Legends of the Sioux, p. 72. By another legend they claimed that their first ancestor obtained his fire from the sparks which a friendly panther struck from the rocks as he scampered up a stony hill (McCoy, Hist. of Baptist Indian Missions, p. 364).

[152-1] Mrs. Eastman, ubi sup., p. 158; Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, iv. p. 645.