INDEX 



Abortion, 30; 30 (footnote) 



Air regulator, 67 



Allegany, 5, 6, 7, 15 



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, 37 

 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, 33 ; Hand- 

 some Lake's love of, 33 (foot- 



note) ; treatment of, 34; warnings 

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

 tality toward, 36; destitute, 36 



Christ, section 74, 67 



Christian Indians, 6, 14 



Christian influence, 11 



Civil war, 13 



Clairvoyant, 49 



Cold Spring, 7, 12, 46, 76 



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, 101 

 I Discovery of America, 16 



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