I^^DEX. 



383 



Thunder, god of, i. 88. 



Ticonderoga, its position, i. 121 ; 

 repulse of the English there, 123, 

 124 ; taken by General Amherst, 

 126. 



Totems, emblems of clans, i. 5, 10 ; 

 their influence, 10. 



Tracv, a fur-trader, at Mackinaw, 

 i. 341. 



Traders among the Indians, their 

 bad character, i. 72 ; many of 

 them killed, ii. 6-8 ; treacherous 

 conduct of the Indians towards 

 them, 9. 



Treacherous conduct of Indians, i. 

 ly4, 340, ii 7, 9, 17. 



Treatment of captives taken in 

 war, i. 19, 20, 68, 239 note. 



Treatment of Indians by the 

 French, 73-77 ; by the English, 

 73, 173, 174 note, 185 ; by Wilhani 

 Penn, 81 ; by his sons, 84, 85 ; 

 by the Quakers, 82, 83 ; by the 

 New England people, 81. 



Treaty of 1763, its probable effect 

 on the Indians had it been made 

 sooner, i. 195, 196. 



Trent, Captain, occupies the site of 

 Pittsburg, i. 99 ; obliged to leave 

 it, ib. 



Tribute exacted by the Iroquois, 

 what, i. 8 note. 



Tuscaroras, a later member of the 

 Iroquois confederacy, i. 9 ; re- 

 moval from North Carolina, 27. 



u. 



Union of the colonies proposed, i. 

 101. 



Union of the Mississippi and Mis- 

 souri Rivers, ii. 246. 



V. 



Venango, on the Alleghany Kiver, 

 ii. 2; destroyed by the Indians 

 and the garrison slaughtered, 20 ; 

 the remains visible many years 

 after, 21 note. 



Vincennes, a French settlement, i. 

 156, ii. 290. 



Virginia troops, their good conduct 

 at the time of Braddock's defeat, 

 i. 113; Virginia wasted by In- 

 dian war, 142 ; character of the 

 settlers of Western Virginia, ii. 

 81, 83 ; extent of settlement, 82 ; 

 ravages of the Indians, 87, 88; 

 energetic measures taken to pro- 

 tect the settlers, 97. 



W. 



" Walking Purchase," the, a fraud- 

 ulent transaction, i. 84 ; its con- 

 sequences, 85, 86. 



Walpole, Horace, his low opinion 

 of General Braddock, i. 105. 



Wampum, of what made, i. 186 

 note; its uses, 187, 188 note ; what 

 the spurning of it denotes, 145 

 not'' ; used in making a treaty, ii. 

 177 note ; black wampum and its 

 use, 272. 



Wapocoiuognth, an Ojibwa chief, 

 visits Detroit with proposals of 

 peace, ii. 107. 



War, Indian appetite for it, i. 193 ; 

 their mode of preparation for it, 

 19 ; wars of the Iroquois with 

 other Indians, 23-26 ; with the 

 French, 68-70; war of 1755, 102- 

 141 ; of the Indians of Ohio 

 against the English, 143 ; war- 

 parties of Indians, how formed, 

 192 ; Indian wars, how con- 

 ducted, 193, 194 ; preparation for 

 war, how made, 196-198 ; the 

 war feast, 197 ; .prognostics of 

 the war, 212 ; the war dance, 

 233 ; the war instigated by Pon- 

 tiac begins, 235 ; end of the war, 

 its distresses, ii. 305. 



War of 1755, its beginning, i. 103 ;' 

 its peculiar character, 104 ; plan 

 formed for 1755 by the English 

 ministry, 105 ; plan for 1759, 

 125. 



Washington, George, sent to remon- 

 strate against Frencli encroach- 

 ment, i. 97 ; his interview with 

 the French commandant on the 

 waters of the Ohio, 98 ; surprises 

 and captures a party of French 

 on the Monongahela, 99 ; sus- 

 tains the attack of a superior 

 force of French and Indians, 100 ; 



