INDEX 



Abrams, Chauncey, portrait, 24. 

 Adirondack^, wars with Iroquois, 



128, 129. 

 Adoption, different from honorary 



naming, 19; rare custom, 20. 

 Ahneah, Rose Flower, 82. 

 Algonquin and Wannutha, 124-27. 

 Allegany Senecas, reservation, size, 



130. 

 Anda, Day, 48. 

 Animals and birds, 35-36. 

 Ataensic, the Sky Woman, 31, 33- 



34- 

 Athletes, Iroquois, 130. 



Bald Eagle, 69. 



Bat, 82. 



Beans, spirit of, 185-86. 



Bear, celestial, 57~59- 



Bear, how he lost his tail, 123-24. 



Berry dances, 106. 



Bird dance, origin of, 60-73. 



Birds, 35-36. 



Canoe (new moon), 48. 

 Cattaraugus Senecas, abandoned 



tribal law, 129; reservation, size, 



130. 

 Cayugas, union with Senecas, 128; 



an independent nation, 128; 



sachemships, 129; no separate 



reservation, 130; separated from 



Senecas, 139. 

 Civil War, Iroquois furnished 162 



soldiers and sailors for, 130. 

 Clans, original, 130. 

 Conover, George S., Indian name, 



19.' 



Converse, Frank Buchanan, 16; 



clan adoption, 22; death, 28. 

 Converse, Mrs Harriet Maxwell, 



biography, 14-30; portrait, 18; 



adoption ceremony, 19; national 



adoption, 22; confirmed a Chief of 

 the Six Nations, 25; death, 29; 

 story of her initiation into the 

 Seneca Medicine Lodge, 176-83. 



Corn, spirit of, 63-66, 185-86; draw- 

 ing, 65. 



Cornplanter, Chief E., Origin of 

 the Little Water Medicine So- 

 ciety, 150-56; portrait, 93. 



Creation, myth of, 31-36. 



Crow, 63-66. 



Dagaeeoga, the word between, 189. 



Daganoweda, founder of the 

 League of the Iroquois, 139. 



Dajoji, the Panther, 38. 



Dances, 134. 



Dancing Stars, 53~54- 



Dark Dancers, 102. 



Darkness, 35. 



Day, 48. 



Dayodadogowa, 36. 



Death, angel of, 51. 



Death dance, 81-84. 



Dehohniot, the Evil Soul Gatherer, 

 51-52. 



Deiodasondaikon, thick night, 35. 



Deohako, 64, 185-86. 



Deoniot, 51. 



Dew Eagle, 45-47; drawing, 46. 



Dewando, 79. 



Dewey, Melvil, letter to Mrs Con- 

 verse, 27. 



Djaswendo, 57. 



Donehagawa, the Wolf, 190. 



Donyondo, the Bald Eagle, 69. 



Doyadano, 34. 



Dream Fast, 107-10. 



Dreams, influence upon primitive 

 minds, 94. 



Dust Fan, illus., 141. 



Dwarf People, 101-7. 



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