INDEX 



Adoption, laws of, 49 



Arrows bound together, 11, 45, 101 



Canadian Iroquois, 12 

 Cayugas, younger brothers, 10 

 Chiefs, ceremonies at death of, 120- 

 22; ceremony of installation, 122-- 



23 

 Civil chiefs, 10; nominated by certain 



noble women, 11 

 Clans and consanguinity, 42-44 

 Code of Dekanahwideh, 61-109 

 Confederate lords, positions of, 92- 



95 

 Condolence ceremony, 1 10-13 

 Condolence council, record of, 136- 



43 



Council of Six Nations, 1839, 

 minutes of, 133-36 



Council of the Six Nations upon the 

 Cattaraugus reservation, minutes 

 of, 144-51 



Cusick, Albert, correction of New- 

 house manuscript, 12 



Deer's horns the emblem of power, 



9i 

 Dekanahwideh, 8; traditional narra- 

 tive of birth, etc., 14-16, 65-109; 

 Code of, 61-109 



Emigration, laws of, 50 



Fire keepers, 10 



Five Nations, rights of the people 



of, 55 

 Five Nations' league, tradition of 



origin, 61-109 

 Foreign nations, rights, 50-52 

 Funeral addresses, 58-60 



Gayanashagowa, great binding law, 



30-60 

 Great peace, 12; establishment of, 



26-29; council of, 30-60 



Hiawatha, 8, 71 



Hiawatha belt, 12, 47 



Hiawatha tradition, 1 14-18 



Hill, Hilton, copy of manuscript 



made by, 13 

 House, protection of, 57 



Indian council 1846, sketches of, 



126-32 

 Indian words, meaning, 63 

 Installation, ceremony of, 122-23 

 Installation song, 57 

 Iroquois, racial superiority, 9; laws 



of peace and war, 9; absorption of 



other nations, 10; confederate 



council, 10; Canadian, 12 



Jesuit fathers, efforts to Christianize 

 the Five Nations, 62 



Laws of the confederacy, 97~ 10 9 

 Long house, use of term, 97 

 Lords, rights, duties and qualifica- 

 tions of, 34-41 



Marriage ceremony, the ancient rite, 



123 ; in later days, 124 

 Mohawks, older brothers, 10 



Newhouse, Seth, manuscript writ- 

 ten by, 12 



Older brothers, 10 



Oneidas, younger brothers, 10 



Onondagas, fire keepers, 10 



Passamaquoddy wampum records, 

 119-25 



Pine tree chiefs, election, 41 



Prince, J. D., Passamaquoddy wam- 

 pum records, 119-25 



Protection of the house, 57 



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