Mohawk Chief, Joseph Brant Claimed Burial Mounds Were Built by " white men from a foreign country."

Mohawk Chief, Joseph Brant Claimed Burial Mounds Were Built by " white men from a foreign country."

Life of Joseph Brant -Thayendanega

Includes the Wars of the American Revolution by William L. Stone, 1838

    Among other things relating to the western country" says Mr. Woodruff, " I was curious to learn in the course of my conversation with Captain Brant, what information he could give respecting the tumuli which are found on and near the margin of the rivers and lakes from the St. Lawrence to the Mississippi. He stated, in reply, that the subject had long been agitated, but yet remained in some obscurity. "A tradition, he said prevailed among the different nations of Indians throughout that whole extensive range of country, and had been handed down from time immemorial, that in an age long gone by, there came white men from a foreign country, and by consent of the Indians established trading houses and settlements where these tumuli are found".