INDEX 



Abraders, grooved, 12 

 Acculturation, intertribal, 159 

 Acorns, flour from, 44 

 Adoption, reasons for, S3 

 Affection, gesture of, 71 

 Aged, care for, 19, 149 



status of, 149-150 

 Agriculture, 3, 4, 26 

 "Aiaouez," see Iowa Indians. 

 "Ajoues," see Iowa Indians. 

 Aksarben Aspect, 12 

 Algonquian Indians, 51, 56, 61, 66, 156 

 Allen, Walter, 37 



Allionia nyctaginea, horse medicine, 126 

 Altar, used in Sun dance, 103, 104 

 (AMC), see Makes-cry, Albert. 

 American Fur Company, trade with, 28 

 American Indian Chicago Conference, 



165 

 Ammunition, 32 



See also Firearms ; Weapons. 

 Amulet, made by mothers to hold um- 

 bilical cord, 144 

 Andropogon furcatus, 56 

 Anemone (Wadibaba-maka), 130 

 Anhinga anhinga (waterbird) , 102, 123 

 Animals, 17, 39 



clan, 97 



claws of, 100 



disguises as, 25, 41 



extinct, 78 



power from, 99 



prehistoric, 18 



skin of, 100 

 Anise, wild, 44 

 Ankle bands, angora, 64 



cotton, 66 

 Announcer, see Crier [camp]. 

 Antelope, 8, 39 

 Anthropologists, 7, 17 

 "Antlers," 159 



Antoine, Ponca mixblood chief, 70 

 Anvils, stone, 12 

 Aphrodisiac, use of, 141 

 Aquilegia canadensis, 69 

 Arapaho Indians, 60, 104, 123, 133 

 Archeological remains, 11, 80 



North-Central Nebraska, 14 



prehistoric, 13 

 Archeologists, 12 



Ankara Indians, 12, 13, 14, 26, 29, 117, 

 124, 132, 141, 156 



Ponca name for, 133 



Ponca relations with, 132 



pottery of, 13 

 Arkansas River, 35 



Armbands, 63, 64, 79, 80 

 Arm cutting, sign of mourning, 154 

 Arrowheads, 20, 53, 55 

 Arrowleaf , eaten in soup, 43 

 Arrows, 18, 31, 41, 49, 51, 55, 90, 97, 111, 

 123, 127, 150 



ash wood, 55 



dogwood, 55 



Juneberry, 55 



medicine, 119, 120 



signaling by, 138 



toy, 145 



trifeathered, 55 

 Arrowshafts, 55 



wrenches for, 12, 53 

 Arrowwood, added to tobacco, 47 

 Art, V, 13 



coppersmith's, 3 



of Mexico, 2 



See also Artwork. 

 Arteinisia dracincupoides ("fuzzy- 

 weed"), 142 

 A. glaiica (green sage), medicinal use 



of, 152 

 Artifacts, 12, 20, 23, 51 

 Artists, Ponca Indians visited by, 27 

 "Art visions," rock pictures of, 71 

 Artwork, representative, done by men, 

 80 



See also Art. 

 Ash Creek, 17 

 Ash (trees), 9 



arrows made of, 55 



bows made of, 54 



rotten powdered, 20, 54 



shinny sticks of, 126 

 Assiniboin Indians, 104 

 Assiniboin Steamer, 155 

 Atkinson, Gen. Henry, 9 

 Atkinson-O'Fallon exploring party, 27 

 Atlatl or spear thrower, 13 

 "Aunt," 85 



Automobiles, effect of on Indians, 163 

 Awls, 26 

 Axes, 28, 51 



half, 32 



monolithic, 3 



stone, 3 

 Aztalan area, 10 



Babies, 144 



Backrests ("lazy-backs"), 51, 58 



Badger, 8 



"Bad Village," Omaha village, 16 



Bags, 62, 120 



Ball, 126, 127, 130 



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