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Indians, their general character, 

 i. 1, all live by llie chase, 2; 

 their pride and self-consciousness, 

 lb. ; they cannot endure restraint, 

 lb. ; influence ot the sachems, 

 what, 3 ; distinction between the 

 civil and niiliuiry authority, ib. ; 

 the Indian inflexibly adheres to 

 ancient usages, 4 ; division into 

 clans, ib. : the totems, or symbols 

 of the clans, 5 ; peculiar char- 

 acter of the clan, ib. ; its privi- 

 leges, 6; division of the Indian 

 population into tliree great fam- 

 ilies, ib. ; their dwellings and 

 works of defence, 10 ; their mode 

 of life, 18 ; their legendary lore, 

 37 ; and religious belief, 3J ; the 

 unity of G;jd unknown to them, 

 ib. ; the Indian character often 

 mistaken, 40 ; the Indian strange- 

 ly self-contradictory, ib. ; his 

 character summed up, 41-44 ; 

 treatment of Indians by the 

 French, 73-77; by the English, 

 73 ; by William Penn, 81 ; by 

 his sons, 84. 85 ; by the Quakers, 

 82, 83; attitude of the Indian 

 tribes towards the English in 

 1755, 93 ; their alarm at the ap- 

 pearance of the French on the wa- 

 ters of the Ohio, lOJ ; tlie French 

 conciliate them. 101 ; effect on 

 them of Braddock's defeat, 114 ; 

 attached to the French interest, 

 146 ; estimate of the Indian pop- 

 ulation in 1760 in the present 

 territory of the United States, 

 148 ; striking instance of Indian 

 acuteness, 160 7iofe ; their feel- 

 ings at the surrender of Detroit, 

 16y ; intense hatred of the Eng- 

 lish takes possession of the In- 

 dians, 172 ; its manifestations, 

 ib. ; treatment of the Indians by 

 the P^nglish, 173, 174 note, 185; 

 plot formed for the destruction 

 of the English, 180, 181 ; their 

 imperfect preparation for the 

 war, 191 ; defects of their so- 

 cial system, ib. ; without any 

 central authority, ib. ; their chiefs 

 had no power but of advice and 

 persuasion, 192; Indians will not 

 submit to restraint or discipline, 

 193; they are capricious and 

 unstable, i6./ often desert their 



leaders, 192 ; tliey are formid- 

 able in small detached parties 

 only, 193 ; they are fond of war 

 and ready to engage in it, ib. ; 

 they never fight but when 

 sure to win, 194 ; alert and ac- 

 tive, crafty and treacherous, they 

 cause wide-spread havoc, but 

 carefully avoid collision with a 

 foe, ib. ; Indians prone to quarrel, 

 201 ; Indian council, 200 et sey. ; 

 war-dance, 233 ; Indian attack on 

 Detroit, 235 et seq. ; idea of mil- 

 itary honor, 245 ; courage, 246 ; 

 sad effect of whiskey, 267, 268 ; 

 Indians fight from ambush, 266 ; 

 Indian barbarity. See Barbarity, 

 Indian. Indians attempt to de- 

 stroy an armed scliooner, 300 ; 

 their prolonged blockade of De- 

 troit, 302 ; a curious instance of 

 Indian friendship, 335; Indian 

 ball play, 340 ; fearful massacre 

 by Indians at Michillimackinac, 

 343 et seq. ; cannibalism, 357 ; 

 revulsion of feeling, 357, 360 ; 

 Indian faithlessness, 194, 340, ii. 

 7, 9 ; Indians fight in ambuscade, 

 ii. 77, 97; cannot stand before 

 border riflemen, 97; great con- 

 ference of Indians at Niagara; 

 168 et seq. ; veneration of In- 

 dians for the rattlesnake, 168 

 7iote ; to some white people Indian 

 life has charms, 237 ; Indians of 

 the Illinois, 254 ; council of In- 

 dians meet Sir William Johnson 

 at Johnson Hall, 72; again at 

 Niagara, 168 ; council at Detroit, 

 292-297 ; Indians are pleased 

 when white men adopt their fig- 

 urative language, 296 note. 

 Iroquois, or Five Nations, afterwards 

 Six Nations, i. 7 ; the term often 

 applied to the entire family of 

 which they were a part, ib.j their 

 extended conquests, ib. See Ap- 

 pendix A. Causes of their success, 

 8; tribal organization, 9 ; their 

 manner of conducting public 

 business, ib. ; divided into eight 

 clans, 10; great power of this 

 system, ib. ; descent of the sa- 

 cliemship in the female line, 11 ; 

 extensive prevalence of this cus- 

 tom, ib. note ; origin of the Iro- 

 quois, 12; Indian tradition con- 



