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Chauiuonot, Joseph-Marie, ICO 

 Cherries, 62, 108 

 Chestnuts, 15 

 Chickens, 73 



Chiefs, 8, 38, 42-48, 49, 76, 77, 87, 89, 

 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 109, 112, 

 114, 119, 129, 130, 131, 134, 135, 

 137, 138, 139, 142, 152 



appointed by clan mother, 18 



as country treasurers, 51 



assistant to, 44 



authority of, 29, 35, 47 



corruption of, 48 



duties of, during war, 31 



federal, 46 



qualities for being, 43, 44 



raising up of, 45 



speeches of, 48, 50 



titles of, 44 



tribal, 45, 111, 115 

 Chieftainship, election to, 46 



inheritance of, 43, 46, 47 



refusal of, 47 



succession to, 47 



tribal, 43 

 Children, 77 



adoption of, 31 



attitudes toward, 124 



captive, 31 



dances forbidden to, 109 



division of, in divorce, 125-126 



selling of, 61 



sleeping places for, 41 



suicide of, 57 



trade rights of, 25 



training of, 57, 124 



treatment of, 124 

 Chives, see Onions. 

 Christian converts, 10, 11 

 Christian cross, belief regarding, 95 

 Christian God, 151 

 Christians, 88, 89, 90, 119 

 Citation explanations, 8 

 Clans, 12, 43, 44, 45, 55, 126, 128 



councils of, 52, 56 



exogamous, 126 



matrilineal, 44 



mothers of, new chiefs appointed 

 by, 18, 46 



possessions of, 51 



symbols of, 21, 109 



totems of, 60 

 Clarke, Peter Dooyentate, 10 

 Cloaks, 113 



skin, 59 

 Clothing, decorations for, 20, 59, 111 



effect of European contact on, 20, 21 



for death, 128 



fur, 20 



mourning, 133 



Plains type, 30 

 Clowns, 78 

 Clubs, 37 



wooden war, 30, 32 

 Coals, hot, used in medicine rites, 104, 



106 

 CoflSn, adopted by Iroquois, 131 

 Coinkia (boiled bread), 70 



Coldspring, 97 



Colic, 120 



Collars, 59, 77, 111, 116, 141 



wampum, 28, 32, 50, 57, 86, 93, 114, 

 116, 121, 126, 130, 137, 138, 139 

 Combs, 130, 133 

 Condolence Ceremony, Iroquois, 45, 46, 



54, 75, 134, 137 

 Conestoga Indians, 16 



G OHkhandcenrlionons, Iroquoian-speak- 



ing tribe, 16 

 Conuelley, William E., 3, 10, 28, 43, 45, 



55, 79, 81, 91, 147, 151, 153, 154, 

 155 



Contarrea, Huron village, 150 

 Contraception, 123 

 Controller (Great Spirit), 81 

 Converse, Harriet Maxwell, 75, 79, 100, 



122, 151, 154, 155 

 Converts, Indian, 20, 26, 27, 48, 89, 126 

 Cord, hemp, 64 



Cord Nation, see Attigneenongnahac. 

 Corn, 3, 9, 12-15, 23, 25, 27, 31, 51, 58, 59, 

 GO, 95, 110, 113, 118, 121, 123, 147, 

 151, 154 



boiled {sagamit^), 23, 38, 62, 63, 68, 

 70 



cached along trails, 24 



carried on trips, 70 



cooking of, 67-68 



dried, 41, 61, 69 



flint, 68 



grinding of, 68 



harvested by souls, 141 



offered to dead, 139 



pai-ched, 69 



planting of, 61 



pounded {ottet),Q8, 70 



prepared by women, 58, 67 



protection of, 61 



roasted, 68, 69 



rotten (leindohy) , 68, 69 



soup, 70 



stored, 61 



trade in, 61 

 Cornbread, 70, 127 

 Cornmeal {eschionqiie), 27, 30, 51, 58, 



68, 69 

 Cornplanter, Indian chief, 42 

 Cornplanter, Jesse, 65, 100, 152 

 Cornstalks, 61, 70 

 Corpses, treatment of, 136, 138 



See also Dead. 

 Councils, 48-51, 101, 105, 138 



assistants to chief of, 31, 43, 44 



calling of, 49-50, 89, 90, 94, 111, 

 113, 115, 120, 131 



decisions of, announced by chief, 49 



fires for, 48 



members of, 49 



peace (endionraondaone) , 48 



place of, 49 



secret, 48 



speech at (acwentonch) , 50-51 

 Council sticks, 47, 138 

 Cousin, 128 

 Cow parsnips, 62 

 Cows, 15, 65 



