INDEX 



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Sonnontouan, see Seneca Indians. 

 Sonnontoueronnions, see Seneca In- 

 dians. 

 Sonnontoueronnons, see Seneca Indians. 

 Sonontoen, Seneca town, 17 

 Sonontoilan, see Seneca Indians. 

 Sonontrerrhonons, see Seneca Indians. 

 Sonontivaeronons, see Seneca Indians. 

 Sonontwehronons, see Seneca Indians. 

 Sorcerers, 19, S3, 85, 99, 111, 117, 118, 119 

 killing of, 118 

 oky ontatechiata, 118 

 Souls, 137 



beliefs regarding, 133-34, 140, 141 

 expelling of, 39, 132 

 migration of, 91, 140 

 of animals, 140 

 rebirth of, 132, 140 

 Spade, wooden, 61 

 Spatula iestoqua),6d 

 Spears, 30, 88 



fish, 62 

 Speck, Frank G., 39, 60, 71, 72, 75, 77, 

 79, 81, 87, 91, 93, 108, 110, 114, 

 115, 117, 121, 140 

 Spells, 117, 118 

 Spirits, 78, 80-82, 88 



guardian, 90 

 Spoons. 23, 74 

 Spring Festival, 78 

 Spruces, 12, 40, 108 

 Squash, 15, 58, 60, 71 

 Squirrels, 64 

 black, 111 



robe from skin of, 93, 111 

 Steel, for firemaking, 23 

 Sticks, as mnemonic devices, 46 

 Stockades, 39 

 Stones. 110 



red hot, juggled by medicine men, 



104, 106 

 red hot, used for sweating, 86, 105 

 used as charms, 117, 120, 121 

 Storage, see Cache pits. 

 Strawberries, 62, 70 



. dried, 62. 105 

 Strawberry Ceremony, 62 

 Straws, game, 57, 114, 115 

 Sturgeon, 64, 73 

 Sturtevant, William C, 2. 79 

 Sucking, as curing treatment, 84, 117 

 Suicide, 56-57 



beliefs regarding, 141 

 Suitor, rejection of, 126 



requirements of, 127 

 Sun, louskehaas, 146, 154 



supernatural being, 36, 38, 79 

 Sim Dance, 79 

 Sunflowers, 60 

 Sunflower seed oil, 60, 68 

 used in tattooing, 21 

 used on hair, 21 

 Supernatural beings, see Spirits. 

 Susquehanna Indians, 16, 17 

 Susquehanna River, 16 

 Sweat baths, 85, 86, 93, 104, 108, 118, 145 



Sweat houses, 86, 88, 93, 96, 105, 145 

 Sword blades, 137 

 Sycamore bark, 84 



Taenhatentaron, Huron village, 150 



Taft, Grace EUis, 94 



Taliontaenrat, see ToJiontaenrat. 



Tamales, 70 



Tattooing, 15, 21 



Tawiscaron (Younger Twin Brother), 



146, 151, 154, 155 

 Teanaostahe, Indian village, 44 

 Teanaostaia^, Huron village, 150 

 TeJiaronJiiawagon, Iroquois name for 



louskeha, 151 

 Thanksgiving Address, 73, 81 



dance, 30, 72, 75 



feast, 75 

 Thieves, 52 



discovery of, 97 



punishment of, 56 

 Thorn, used in tattooing, 15 

 Three Rivers, 5, 18, 27 

 Thunder, 128 



supernatural being, 75, 80, 82, 95, 

 115 

 Thunderbird, 82, 109 

 Thunder Ceremony, 103, 115 

 Ticks, wood, 82 

 Time, counted by the moon, 71 

 Toad, supernatural, 155 

 ToancM I, Huron village, 149 

 ToancM II, Huron village, 149 

 Tobacco, 9, 13. 15, 23, 26, 50, 60, 73, 80, 

 83, 86, 87, 98, 110, 111, 112, 139, 

 142, 143 



Anondahoin, 73 



burned as invocation, 64, 80, 93, 95, 

 109, 118 



distribution of, 50 



invocation, 79, 80 



offering of, 64, 74, 80, 81, 82, 94 



pouch, 20, 59, 116, 118 



rituals, 80 

 Tobacco League, 5, 9, 10, 12-13, 15, 21, 



27, 66, 82, 111, 117 

 Tobacco Nation. See Tobacco League. 

 Tohontaenras, see Tohontaenrat. 

 Tohontaenrat (White-eared or Deer 



People), 3, 10, 11, 36, 150 

 Tomahawk, 76, 116, 130, 136, 137. 142 



red-hot, used in torture, 33 

 Tomb, bark, 130, 131 

 Tonawanda, 73 



Tondaklira, Huron village, 149 

 Tools, European, 21 

 Torch, 90, 143 



Tortoise shells, 77, 84, 106, 107 

 Torture, beliefs regarding, 33 



of prisoners, 31-39 



religious ceremonial, 32, 36 

 Trade, 15, 59, 71, 75, 90, 91, 121, 143 



and war, 25-31 



done by men, 58 



infringement of, 26 



private rights in, 25-26 



