In regard to the modern history of the mound, one event may be placed on record. At some time in 1828, at the instance by Colonel Greenwood Leflore, a great national council of the Choctaws convened at Nanih Waiya. The object of this council was the making of new laws so as to place the Choctaws more in harmony with the requirements of modern civilization. On this occasion severe laws were enacted against drunkenness and against the practice of executing women as witches. This assembly is remarkable as being the only known national Indian council held at Nanih Waiya within the historic period. How many Indian councils similar to this the mound may have witnessed in the pre-historic past can never be known. This imperfect sketch of the Choctaw sacred mound is brought to a close with a hope, that, as long as Mississippi stands, so long may Nanih Waiya stand, steadfast and immovable, the greatest of Mississippi's pre-historic monuments. INDEX PAGE Aberdeen$1 $20 Aberdeen Cathedral, 85n Abou Ben Adhem, 30 Abraham, 70 Adams, 49 Adams County, 142, 170, 176, 177, 207, 218 Adams, George, 152, 153, 161 Adams, Daniel, 162n Adams, Wirt, 162n Addison, 19 Affleck, 202 Africa, 86 Agricultural & Mechanical College, 124 Alabama, 72, 113, 127, 131, 148, 151n, 152n, 168, 185 Alabama Historical Society, 157 Alabama History: Brewer's, 151n, 153 Colonial Mobile, 158n Memorial Record, 152n Picket's, 151n Alabama River, 158 Alcorn, Gov. J. L., 121, 196, 197 Alexandria, 176 Allan-Bane, 71 Allan, James Lane, 8 "Alone," a poem, 33 Alston's Lake, 163 Altamaha, 127, 128 America, 113, 125, 126 American, 17, 20, 159, 212, 219 American fiction, Library of, 66 American Historical Association, Publication of, 94n American Historical Review, 159n, 219 American Philosophical Society, 93, 95, 105, see _Transaction_ Ames, Gov. Adelbert, 122, 189, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199 Amite River, 86, 165 Anderson, Mrs. Albert, 67 Anderson, Thomas D., 153 Animalculæ, Account of, 98 Annalen of Physics, 98 Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 86n Archer, Judge Stevenson, 149, 162 Archives, 94 Aristotle, 16 Arkansas River, 105 "Arlington," 216 Arthur's Home Journal, 31 Ashly, 160 Asia, 101 Astronomy, 26 Atlantic Monthly, 38, 67 "Attala," 207 Attorneys, Federal in Mississippi, 153, 154 "Auburn," 216 Augustan Age of literature, 15, 16 Austin, Mississippi, 66 Bailey, 86 Bailiff, J. S., 196 Bance River, 158 Banks, Sir Joseph, 102 Banks, Sulton, 179, 183 Bantam River, 25 Baptist, 160, 228 "Bard of the Quarters," 20 Barksdale, E., 121n, 194 Barksdale, W. R., 196, 197 Burnet, Daniel, 166 Barton, Dr. Benjamin Smith, 99 Barton, 'Squire, 65 Bartram, 91, 101, 110, 226 Baton Rouge, 86, 87, 88, 100, 211 Bayou Tunica, 162, 163 Beacon Hill, 49 Beaver Creek, 165