INDEX. 



THE ROaLAN NUMERALS REFER TO THE rNTRODUCTIOK. 



A. 



Abenaquis, wliere found, xxii; ask for 

 a missiouary, 321. 



Abraham, Plains of, whence the name, 

 335 note. 



Adoption of prisoners as members of 

 the tribe, Isvi, 223, 309, 424, 444. 



Adventures and sufferings of an Al- 

 gonquin woman, 309-313; of an- 

 other, 313-316. 



Agnier, a name for the Mohawks, xlviii 

 note. 



Aiguillon, Duchess d', founds a Hotel- 

 Dieu at Quebec, 181. 



Albany, formerly Rensselaerswyck, its 

 condition in 1643, 229. 



Algonquins^ a comprehensive term,xx; 

 regions occupied by them in 1535, 

 XX ; the designation, how applied, 

 ib. note ; found in New England, 

 xxi; their relation to the Iroquois, 

 xxi; numbers, ib.; Algonquin mis- 

 sions, 36«. 



Allumette Island, xxiv, 45; its true 

 position, 46. 



Amikouas, or People of the Beaver, 

 Ixviii note; supposed descent fi-om 

 that animal, ib. 



Amusements of the Indians, xxxvi; 

 the Jesuits require them to be aban- 

 doned, 136. 



Andacwcindet, a strange method of cure, 

 xlii. 



Andastes, Avhere found in the early 

 times, XX, xlvi ; fierce warriors, xlvi ; 

 identical with the Susquehannocks, 



. ib. note; their aid sought by the 

 Hurons, 341; the result unsatisfac- 

 tory, 344 seq.; war with the Mo- 

 hawks, 441 ; assisted by the Swedes 

 from Delaware River, 442; repulse an 

 attack of the Iroquois, ib. ; a party 

 of Andaste boys defeat the Senecas 

 and Cayugas, 443; finally subdued 

 by the Senecas, ib. 



Aquanuscioni^ or Iroquois, xlviii note. 



Areskoui, the god of war, Ixxvii; 

 human sacrifices offered to him, ib. ; 

 a captive Iroquois sacrificed to him, 

 81. 



Arrnoucliiquois, a name applied to the 

 Algonquins of New England, xxi ; a 

 strange account of them given by 

 Champlain, xxii note. 



Arts of life, as practised by the Hurons, 

 xxxi. 



Assistaerimnons, or Nation of Fire. See 

 Nation of Fire. ■ 



Ataentsic^ a malignant deity; the moon, 

 Ixxvi. 



Atahocan, a dim conception of the Su- 

 preme Being, Ixxiv. 



Atotarho ol the 0:oudagas, liv, Ivii. 



Attendants of the Jesuits, 112 note, 

 132. See Bonnes. 



Atticnmegues, xxiii, 286, 293 ; attacked 

 by the Iroquois, 420. 



Atttgouantans. See Hurons. 



Aitiioa7idarons, or Neutral Nation, why 

 so called, xliv; their country, ib.'; 

 ferocious and cruel, xlv; licentious, 

 ib. ; their treatment of the dead, ib. 

 See Neutral Nation. 



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