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Near the middle of the eighteenth century, or about 1750, a party of Virginia hunters, growing weary of the monotony of home life and desiring to find better hunting grounds, penetrated the Appalachian Mountains by way of Powell’s Valley and through Cumberland Gap, into the eastern portion of what is now Kentucky, and hence were the first white men to approach the land from the eastern side.
This seems a very wise adjustment of civic duties; the constructive social work and the maintaining of peace directed by the women; the destructive work of war in the hands of men. I have summarised the account of the Wyandot government as given by Hartland, who quotes from Powell’s “Wyandot Government,” First Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1879-1880, pp. 61 ff.
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