INDEX 



Abortion, 30; 30 (footnote) 



Air regulator, 67 



Allegany, 5, 6, 7, I5 



Allegany Seneca, 15 



Alphabet, 139 



Anecdotes of Cornplanter, 136 



Animal totem, 39; societies, 39; 40 

 (footnote), 113; ordered dis- 

 banded, 114; are ancient, 115; ta- 

 bued, 115 



Authorized teachers, 5 



Avon, 9, 78 



Bear, great naked, 119 



Bear, mammoth, 28 



Bear society, 125 



Beauchamp, Dr William M., quoted, 



127 

 Beaver, white, a charm, 119 

 Bible believers, 64 

 Blacksnake, Owen, 19 

 Blue panther, 119 

 Bluesky, William, 8 

 Boasting, denounced, Z7 

 Buffalo Creek reservation treaty, 7, 



64, 78 

 Buffaloes, sacred, 43 

 Buffalo society, 125; dance of, plate 



17 

 Bundle, magic, 29 



Cattaraugus, 5, 6 



Cattaraugus, Seneca, 7, 15 



Ceremony of herb gathering, 54 



Ceremony, New Year {see Mid- 

 winter), 75 



Ceremonies, special, 103 



Charm, members, 119 



Charms, witch, 28; Seneca name, 

 30; 30 (footnotes); corn, 54; so- 

 ciety for, 119; good and evil. 120 



Children, punishment of, 2>Z i Hand- 

 some Lake's love of, ZZ (foot- 



note); treatment of, 34; warnings 

 of, 34; sin of defaming, 35; hospi- 

 tality toward, z^ ; destitute, 36 



Christ, section 74, (i^ 



Christian Indians, 6, 14 



Christian influence, 11 



Civil war, 13 



Clairvoyant, 49 



Cold Spring, 7, 12, 46, '](i 



Columbus, Christopher, 18 



Command to preach, 26 



Cooperation, 39 



Conservative Indians, ideas, 14 



Converts, 6, 7 



Corn bug, 119 



Cornplanter creek, 20 



Cornplanter, Edward, photograph, 

 plate 2, 5, 6, 8; quoted, 13; 132 



Cornplanter {^see also Gyantwaka or 

 Gaiantwaka), 11 



Cornplanter village, 12, 20, 61 



Cornplanting thanksgiving, 54 



Corn, spirit, 47 ; medicine, 54 ; plant- 

 ing of, 54; drawing, plate 12 



Customs changed, 56 



Customs, mourning, 107 



Creator, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27 to 

 80 ; controversy with devil, 48 



Dances, 39; four sanctioned, 41, 51, 



124 

 Dark dance, 119 



Daughter of Handsome Lake, 22 

 Dead man reviews, 24 

 Dearborn, General, letter from, 10 

 Death chant, 21, 126; drawing, plate 



18 

 Death, coming of, a legend, 105 

 Death feast, 57, 126 

 Deer, sacred, 43 

 Devil, loi 

 Discovery of America, 16 



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