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U.S. Army, 22, 28, 33, 135 



U.S. Government, 9, 10, 21. 27, 31, 32, 33, 



35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 117, 133 

 University of Nebraska, 11, 52, 68, 131 

 University of Oklahoma, 159 

 University of South Dakota, 52, 68, 70 

 Upper Missouri River, 26 

 Upper Republican, 10 

 "Upstream People," see Omaha Indians. 



Vegetables, 28, 37, 45 



Verbena, wild, beverage from, 44 



Verdel, Nebr., 6, 11, 18, 60 



Vermillion River, 24 



Vessels, 2, 13 



Vest, blue broadcloth, 64 



(VHM), see Headman, Mrs. Virginia. 



Villages, 3, 30, 50, 60 



permanent, 91, 92 



tent, 160 

 Village tribes, harassment of, 29 

 Violets, 145 



Vision quest, 99, 100, 146 

 Visions, 48, 80 

 Visitor, gifts given to, 128 

 Voget, Fred W., 164 



Wagons, 34, 35, 36. 37 



Walker, Major, U.S. Army, 33. 34 



Wallace, Anthony F. C, 164 



Wallis, Mrs. Wilson D., 155 



Walls, wattle and daub, 1 



Walnuts, 9, 44, 52 



Wand, feathered, or "pipe," 20, 95, 105 



Wapiti, 8 



Warbonnets, 65. 66, 101, 111, 159 



Warclubs, 51, 53, 55, 56 



Warfare, defensive. 135, 137, 139 



tribal, 4, 50, 107, 136, 139 



trophies of, 140 

 War honors, 29, 62, 107, 133, 136, 137, 



141, 142 

 War parties, 30, 93, 95, 100, 128, 129, 132, 

 135, 137, 146 



description of, 139 



leader of, 100, 135, 136, 137, 139 



regulation of, 95, 136 

 Warrior, Clyde, 102, 108, 112 

 Warrior, Mrs. Grace, 94, 102 

 Warrior, Sylvester, 106, 108 

 Warriors, 31, 32, 33, 39. 91, 92, 93, 94, 



107, 123, 129, 136, 137, 141, 146 

 Water, 75, 125 

 Waterbird (water turkey or snakebird), 



123 

 Water chinquapin, 43 

 Watermelons, 45 



Waxuhe (power), 102, 119, 120, 128, 137 

 (WBB), see Blue-back, Walter 

 Weapons, 3, 13, 54-56, 6l> 



See also Arrows ; Firearms. 

 Weasel, 8, 119 

 Weaving, 3 



Webster, John L., lawyer, 22 

 "Wedding bridle," silver, 80 

 Wedel, Waldo R., 14 



W6gasapi (Whip), Ponca chief, 30, 31, 

 132 



Weights, 12, 13 

 Wewela, S. Dak., 57 

 Wheat, 38 

 Whetstones, 12 

 Whip men, 106 

 Whippoorwill, 145 

 Whistle, cedar, SO 



eagle-bone, 76, 80, 103, 104 

 heMSJca, 140, 141 

 toy, 145 

 wooden, 64, 65 

 White, Leslie A., 82 

 White acculturation, vi, 38, 69, 157, 158 

 White-eagle, Ponca chief, 103 

 White Eagle, Okla., 57, 59, 60 

 White man, 30, 117 

 White River, 15, 131 

 Whites, animals acquired from, 49 



attitude toward Ponca, 36, 37, 96, 



163 

 contact with, v, 4, 13, 45, 56 

 in Oklahoma, 161, 163 

 intermarriage with, 38, 90, 158 

 Ponca name for, 26 

 religion from, 5, 17, 58, 86, 99 

 treaty with, 31 



See also Explorers; Traders; 

 Treaties 

 White-shirt, Northern Ponca chief, 41, 



90, 101, 153 

 Whitman, William, viii, 71, 79, 84, 85, 

 86, 91, 92, 98, 99, 100, 105, 112, 126, 

 127, 135, 142, 145, 146, 148, 149, 

 153, 154 

 Wichita Indians, 124, 134 

 Widow, remarriage of, 149 

 Wied-Neuwied, Maximilian von, 9, 27, 



52, 55, 61, 62, 68, 133, 155 

 Wife, 86, 116, 136, 143, 147, 148 

 Wigwam, bark, of Central Algonquians, 



56 

 Wildrice, 43 

 Will, George F., and Hyde, George E., 



9, 23, 45 

 Williams, James, 123 

 Williams, John, 100, 101 

 Williams, Parrish, 68, 100, 101, 106, 123, 



128, 129 

 Willow (trees) , 9, 49, 103, 104 

 red, added to tobacco, 47 

 rods, used in backrests, 51 

 sandbar, 52 

 Wilson, Peter, 27 

 Wind Cave, in Black Hills of South 



Dakota, 20, 76 

 Winds, four life-giving (four direc- 

 tions), 76 

 Winnebago Indians, 6. 57, 61, 78, 87, 98, 

 108, 117, 123, 125, 163 

 Ponca name for, 134 

 Wire, lead, coils of. 12 

 Wisconsin, 163 

 Wolf, Prairie, 139 

 Wolf hides, 41 



Wolf howls, signaling by, 137 

 Wood, J. M., 147 



Wood, W. Raymond, 11, 12, 13, 26, 52 

 Wood, use of, 51, 54 



