INDEX 



175 



Buffalo-police, viii, 19, 40, 91, 94, 95, 96, 



129 

 Buffalo runners, fast horses, 123 

 Buffalo Soldiers, punishment inflicted 



by, 136 

 "Buffalo track" (small depression) , 45 

 Bull, John (Mqzqhode) , Southern Ponca 



chief, 16 

 BuUrush stems, mats of, 52 

 Bundle, 40, 100, 102 



ceremony, 100, 102 



contents of, 100, 101 



disposal of, 100 



doctoring, 101 



good-luck, 127 



medicine, 101, 127 



owners of, 38, 100 



sacred,' 52, 84, 100, 122, 137, 141, 149 



storage of, 100, 102 



transportation of, 100 



war, 137, 138, 141 

 Burials, 12, 154, 155 



Christian, 34 



goods from, 26 



tribal, 37 

 Burying grounds, 8, 18, 31, 36, 37 



Ma-azi (Chalk-rock Bank) , 18, 36 

 Bushnell, David I, Jr., 56, 59, 155 

 Bustle, dancing, 107, 137, 160 

 Butte, Nebr., 53, 78 

 Button, silver, 68 



Cache pits, see Pits. 



Cactus plant (Lophophora wilUamsi), 



48 

 Caddoan tribes, 4, 13, 156 

 Caddo Indians, 6, 30, 114, 133, 134 

 Cahokia region, 10 

 Calamus roots, use of, 43, 150 

 Calicoes, 28, 127 



Calumet, ceremonial pipe, 47, 105 

 Cambria Focus, 10 



Camp circle, 17, 20, 40, 75, 89 (fig.), 92 

 Canada, 20 



Canadian Dakota, 155 

 Canes, carved, 51 

 Cannibalism, vii 

 Cannon, owned by Mormons, 29 

 Cap, buffalo horn, 119, 137 



buffaloskin, 137. 



fur, 61 



otterskin, viu, 61, 92 

 Captives, treatment of, 140 

 Cards, favorite sport of Ponca Indians, 



130 

 Caribbean Islands, 3 

 Carlisle School, 76 

 Carp (fish), 8 

 Carvings, 3 



Cass, Lewis, Secretary of War, 28 

 Cataleptic trance, result of Ghost dance, 



109 

 Catfish, 8 

 Catlin, George, 27 

 Catlinite, 12 



Cattail down, uses of, 144, 150 

 Cattle, 37, 104 



Cedar (tree), 118, 150 



fire, for drying meat, 46 



flutes of, 80 



smoke of, fumigation by, 100 



whistles from, 80 

 Cemetery, village, 34 

 Central Algonquian Indians, 51, 56, 61, 



66, 106, 107 

 Central Great Plains, 7, 71, 76 

 Ceramic arts, practice of, 13 



See also Pottery. 

 Ceremonies, viii, 4, 23, 39, 47, 59, 60, 61, 

 66, 76, 86, 95, 102, 157 



building, lack of, 56 



bundle, 102 



Calumet, 104, 105 



Cheyenne, 125 



chief -making, vii, 94, 154 



costumes for, see Costumes. 



"cross" or "big moon," 125 



curing, 59, 101-102 



Ghost Lodge, 155 



"half moon" or "basic Plains," 125 



HedtHka, see HedilSka. 



Medicine lodge, v, 60, 62, 106, 120, 

 121 



Naming, 146 



Pipe (Wd-w(i), 80, 81, 95, 99, 105, 

 106, 121, 141, 156 



puberty, 50, 146 



purification, 59 



rainmaking, 75, 90 



religious, 38, 86 



sacred, 80 



spirit-keeping, 155 



Sun Dance, 66 



tattooing (Hahe-ivatsi) , 38, 90, 113 



Winnebago, 125 



See also Peyote. 

 Chains, silver, 68 

 Chairs, 58 



Champe, John L., 15, 18, 132 

 Charcoal, 99, 111 

 Charles Mix County, S. Dak., 131 

 Chastity, rare in unmarried girls, 142 

 Cherokee Indians, 4, 35, 107, 160 



Ponca name for, 133 

 Cherries, sand, 44 



Cheyenne Indians, 31, 60, 66, 104, 116, 

 122, 125, 141, 147, 157, 161 



Ponca name for, 133 

 Chickasaw Indians, 4 

 Chief, 1, 17, 22 (list), 66, 91-94, 112, 135, 

 154 



as religious leader, 92, 93, 99 



"big," 17, 92, 93 



clan, 92, 98 



costume of, 61, 92 



dress for head chief, 32 



ethics required of, 98 (list) 



fire of, seven sticks in, 73 



first-rank, 40, 92, 93, 94, 98 



head, 32, 40, 91, 92, 93, 94, 129 



insignia of, 137 



Ituzpa, 92, 93 



"little," 17, 92, 93, 94 



Northern Ponca, vn 



Peyote, vu 



