[Footnote: Haywood.

At present it is believed that the mound-builders were Indians.
Haywood is the authority for the early Indian wars of the Cumberland settlement, Putnam supplying some information.] Indian Hostilities.
For some months the whites who first arrived dwelt in peace.

But in the spring, hunting and war parties from various tribes began to harass the settlers.

Unquestionably the savages felt jealous of the white hunters, who were killing and driving away the game, precisely as they all felt jealous of one another, and for the same reason.

The Chickasaws in particular, were much irritated by the fort Clark had built at Iron Bank, on the Mississippi.