[Footnote 92:  The established distinctions among these Indians were as follows:  The Suns, relatives of the Great Sun, held the highest rank; next come the Nobles; after them the Honorables; and last of all the common people, who were very much despised.  As the nobility was propagated by the women, this contributed much to multiply it.]

[Footnote 93:  The Great Sun had given orders to put out all the fires, which is only done at the death of the sovereign.]

[Footnote 94:  Ten Years in Oregon, 1850, p. 261.]

[Footnote 95:  Nat.  Races of Pacif.  States, 1875, vol iii, p. 513.]

[Footnote 96:  Pilgrimage, 1828, vol. ii, p. 443.]

[Footnote 97:  Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition, 1860, ii, p. 164.]

[Footnote 98:  League of the Iroquois, 1851, p. 287.]

[Footnote 99:  Cont. to North American Ethnol., 1878, iii, p. 164.]

[Footnote 100:  Am.  Antiq., April, May, June, 1879, p. 251.]

[Footnote 101:  Pilgrimage, 1828, ii, p. 308.]

[Footnote 102:  Hist.  Indian Tribes of the United States, 1851, part i, p. 356.]

[Footnote 103:  Cont. to N.A.  Ethnol., 1877, vol. ii., p. 58.]

[Footnote 104:  Ethnol. and Philol. of the Hidatsa Indians.  U.S.  Geol.  Surv. of Terr., 1877, p. 409.]

[Footnote 105:  Long’s Exped., 1824, vol. ii, p. 158.]

[Footnote 106:  Northwest Coast, 1857, p. 212.]

[Footnote 107:  Nat.  Races Pacif.  States, 1875, vol. iii, p. 512.]