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INDEX 



Menendez de Aviles, Pedro, Lieutenant 

 Governor of Florida, 45, 71, 101, 128, 

 134, 187, 192, 195, 196. 

 Ais visited by, 84. 

 Atlantic coast explored by, 192. 

 departure from San Antonio, fol- 

 lowed by killing of Calusa chief, 

 101, 192. 

 destruction of second Hugenot col- 

 ony by, 62, 128, 134. 

 effort to form settlement in Vir- 

 ginia, 70. 

 fort of San Felipe built by, 64. 

 marriage to sister of Calusa chief, 



101. 

 return to Havana from Ais country 



by, 134. 

 Tacatacuru visited by, 187. 

 Tekesta braves taken on visit to 



Spain by, 192. 

 visit to Calusa country, 101, 192. 

 visit to Fort San Antonio, 101. 

 visit to Tocobaga, accompanied by 

 chief of Calusa, 195. 

 Menhaden (Brevoortia patronus), use as 



food, 266. 

 " Menheyricks," see Meherrin. 

 Menstrual periods, customs practiced at, 



713, 714, 715, 716. 

 Mequachake, Shawnee band of Indians, 



184. 

 Mera, see Sholes and Mera. 

 Mereness, Newton D., 326. 

 Mermentou River, 93. 

 Merriam, C. Hart, on fauna and flora 



of Southeast, 9-10. 

 Messianic story, among the Indians, 751. 

 Metalwork, 490-498. 

 Meteoric iron, use of, 494. 

 Mexican Government, grant of land to 

 Cherokee by, repudiated by U. S. 

 Government, 113. 

 Mexico, 18, 22, 23, 35, 58, 59, 64, 70, 71, 

 74, 101, 142. 



possible migrations from, to Gulf 



region, 33. 

 southern part, boundary of cultural 

 area, 825, 826, 827. 

 Mexico City, 59, 74. 

 Mexico, Gulf of, 5, 13, 22, 31, 34, 35, 38, 

 39, 172, 243, 826. 



home of Pensacola, 172. 

 relation to cultural area, 826, 

 sea salt from, 243. 

 Mexico, Republic of, 75. 

 M6zi^res, Athanese de, Adai reported 



extinct by, 83. 

 Miami, clans and gentes, 656. 

 Michel, Francis Louis, Swiss traveler, 

 152, 462, 464, 813, 815. 

 on hair dressing, 499, 503. 

 on head bands, 509. 

 on mats and baskets, 603. 

 on necklaces, 517. 

 on nose ornaments, 514. 

 on pottery, 564. 

 on stone pipes, 545. 



Michel, Francis Louis, Swiss traveler, 

 on trade, 740. 

 on wampum, 483. 

 Michelson, Truman, 31. 

 Michigamea, 149, 218, 800. 



driven from Arkansas by Quapaw 



or Chickasaw, 149. 

 found by Marquette on Big Lake, 



Ark., 149. 

 identity apparently lost by, 149. 

 interpretation of name, Algonquian 



tongue, 218. 

 joined Kaskaskia in territory of 



present Illinois, 149. 

 members of Illinois Confederation, 



800. 

 original home on headwaters of 



Sangamon River, Illinois, 149. 

 population, 149. 

 sketch of, 149-150. 

 Mico Chlucco, the Long Warrior, King. 



of the Seminoles, 509. 

 Micropterus salmoides, use of as food, 266 

 Middle Mississippi area, 32. 

 Mikasuki, 116, 150, 181, 182, 189, 214, 

 218, 226, 827. 



name, interpretation of, 218. 



part taken in Seminole War by, 150. 



population, 150. 



prominent Seminole tribe, 1.50, 181, 



182. 

 sketch of, 150. 

 source materials on, 828. 

 Square Ground of, 776. 

 probably branch of Chiaha, 116, 150. 

 town of the, burned by Andrew 

 Jackson, 150. 

 Mikonopi, titular chief of Seminole and 



chief of Oconee, 181, 182. 

 Milfort, Le Clerc, 696, 736, 828. 

 on household utensils, 561. 

 on mnemonic devices, 611, 612. 

 Miller and Fulton, lands sold by Pasca- 

 goulato, 171. 



Taensa sale of land to, 91. 

 Miller County, Ga., 43. 

 Miller's Bluff, La., 57. 

 Miller, William, one of purchasers of 



Biloxi and Pascagoula lands, 97. 

 Milling, Chapman J., 163, 177, 829, 830, 

 831. 



cited on Indian removal, 79-80. 



on identity of Indians who killed 



Haig and Brown, 163. 

 on purpose of British census of 

 Carolina Indians, 77. 

 Mineral kingdom, how drawn upon by 



Southeastern Indians, 242. 

 Minet, map of, 165. 

 Mingo Luak (Fire Chief), Chitimacha 



chief, 120. 

 Minko lusa, "Black Chief," Chakchi- 



uma chief, 105. 

 Miruelo, Diego, 35. 



landing in Calusa country, 101. 

 Timucua coast skirted by, 193. 

 Missionaries, Franciscan Spanish, 16. 



