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292 NOTESRegarding Native American Precedents for Democracy: A Recent Historiography,"American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 14 (1990), 61-88.32. See, for a variety of approaches, William Brandon, New Worlds for Old:Reports from the New World and Their Effect on the Development of Social Thoughtin Europe, 1500-1800 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1986); German Arciniegas,America in Europe: A History of the New World in Reverse, translated by GabrielaArciniegas and R. Victoria Arana (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,1986), esp. pp. 49-71; and Jack M. Weatherford, Indian Givers: The ContinuingImpact of the Discovered Americas on the World (New York: Crown Publishers,1988).33. Quoted in Tooker, "United States Consitution and the Iroquois League,"329.34. Arthur C. Parker, The Constitution of the Five Nations (Albany: New YorkState Museum Bulletin, Number 184, 1916), p. 42.35. Peggy Reeves Sanday, Female Power and Male Dominance: On the Originsof Sexual Inequality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), p. 28. Forrepresentative further discussion of female power among the Iroquois and otherindigenous peoples of North America, see the following: Judith K. Brown,"Iroquois Women: An Ethnohistoric Note," in Rayna Rapp Reiter, ed., Towardan Anthropology of Women (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1978), pp. 235-51; M. Kay Martin and Barbara Voorhies, Female of the Species (New York:Columbia University Press, 1975), esp. pp. 225-29; and Jean L. Briggs, "EskimoWomen: Makers of Men," in Carolyn J. Matthiasson, ed., Many Sisters: Womenin Cross-Cultural Perspective (New York: Macmillan, 1974), pp. 261-304.36. Sanday, Female Power and Male Dominance, pp. 117-18. See also, JohnWitthoft, "Eastern Woodlands Community Typology and Acculturation," in W.Fenton and J. Gulick, eds., Symposium on Cherokee and Iroquois Culture (Washington,D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1961), pp. 67-76.37. Pierre de Charlevoix, Journal of a Voyage to North America (London,1761), excerpted in James Axtell, ed., The Indian Peoples of Eastern America: ADocumentary History of the Sexes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981),pp. 33-34.38. Ibid., p. 34.39. From Reuben Gold Thwaites, ed., The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents,excerpted in Axtell, Indian Peoples of Eastern America, pp. 143-48.40. Charlevoix, "Journal of a Voyage," in Axtell, Indian Pimples of EasternAmerica, p. 153.41. See, for example, the comments of one Englishman, who had ventureddeep into the Shenandoah Valley, on the impressive "judgement and eloquence" ofthe Indian people he encountered: John Lederer, The Discoveries of John Lederer,in Three Several Marches from Virginia to the West of Carolina (London, 1672),p. 5.42. Joseph Fran~ois Lafiteau, Customs of the American Indians Compared withthe Customs of Primitive Times, translated and edited by William N. Fenton andElizabeth L. Moore (Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1977),Volume Two, p. 61.On the population of the southern Great Lakes area, see Dobyns, Their NumberBecome Thinned, p. 41.43. Waldman, Atlas of the North American Indian, p. 223.