Where Haywood white people in Tennessee the specific text quoted by Mooney he is talking about French  He then goes on to discuss the former inhabitants who built the mounds and the round houses and it is not at all clear he is still talking about the white people driven out or the moundbuilders he had discussed earlier However on  he does have every appearance of believing in a race of white aboriginals since extirpated  The real takehome message is that Haywood is a mess and Mooney is problematic in his representation of the relationship between the mooneyed people and the people Haywood is describing as being driven out of Tennessee  Its a house of cards and we need to be very careful in how much credence we give any of it