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INDEX. 



Savanne Lake, country about, i. 60. 



character of the soil of the banks of the 



i. 60. 



Scalp dance, an Indian, ii. 122. 

 Scaphites Conradi, ii. 344. 

 Scaphites Nodosus, ii. 338. 

 Schools at Red River Settleme ntscstsi,atist 

 and enumeration of, i. 214. 



* Protestant schools, 214. 



Presbyterian school, 219. 



Scissors Creek (Pesquanamawe sepesis), i. 

 376. 



Scratching River, i. 156. 

 Seasons of the valley of Lake Winnipeg, ii. 

 369. 



Section of the north bank of the Assinni- 

 boine river measured, i. 287. 



of the bank of the Little Souris, or 



Mouse River, at Plum Creek, i. 

 293, 294. 



and at the Souris Sand Hills, i. 294. 



of the banks of the Qu'appelle River, 



i. 330. 



• of the bank of the Eyebrow Hill 



stream, i. 353. 



transverse, of the valley of the Qu'- 

 appelle at the height of land, i. 

 355. 



■ on the south branch of the Saskat- 

 chewan, i. 381. 

 Seiganagah Lake, i. 77. 



Little, i. 77. 



Seine River, i. 61. 



character of the, i. 62. 



Seine Bay, i. 62. 



Seine, La Riviere, or German Creek, i. 127, 

 132, 166, 168. 



Selenite on the south branch of the Saskat- 

 chewan, i. 381. 



Selkirk Settlement. See Red River Settle- 

 ment. 



Selkirk, Lord, his enterprise in the valley of 

 the Kaministiquia, i. 32. 



founds the Red River Settlements, i. 



172. 



grant of land to, ii. 172. 



■ treaty between him and the Crees and 



Salteaux of Red River, ii. 173. 

 Serpent or Snake Paver, i. 257. 

 Settee, Rev. James, of the Qu'appelle Mis- 

 sion, i. 321. 

 Settlements, area fit for, in the valley of the 



Assinniboine, i. 246. 

 in the valley of the Saskatchewan, i. 



249. 



■ east of the Ridings and Duck Moun- 

 tains, i. 250. 



~ excellent district for the establishment 



of a, near the South Branch of the 

 Saskatchewan, i. 386. 



Settlements, attractive and desirable place 



for, i. 432, 437. 

 Seymour, Mr. H. D., M. P., his trip into the 



prairies in search of buffalo, ii. 81. 

 Shayenne River, i. 126, 352. 

 Shell River, i. 138, 436. 



vegetation of the valley of, i. 246. 



Shell Creek, bones of a mammoth at, i. 312. 

 Shells, fresh water, on tbe beach and marshes 



of Lake Winnipeg, ii. 8. 

 Shoal Lake, i. 102 ; ii. 78. 



description of, i. 103. 



splendid country, near the south shores 



of, ii. 78. 

 River, i. 433. 



Silurian series in North America, ii. 283. 



rim of the, ii. 283. 



distribution of formations, ii. 284. 



chazy formation, ii. 285. 



fossils of the chazy, ii. 285. 



bird's-eye and Trenton formations, ii. 



289. 



Hudson River formation, ii, 289. 



Silver Falls of the Winnipeg River, their 

 magnificence, i. 20. 



Simpson, Sir George, Governor of the Hud- 

 son's Bay Company, ii. 209. 



Sioux, scene of a battle between them and 

 the Ojibways, i. 41. 



dress and mocassins, ii. 105. 



predatory bands of, i. 144, 145. 



watch kept for, i. 289. 



their hostility to the approach of civi- 

 lisation to their hunting grounds, i. 

 295. 



attempts of a band of, to surprise the 



camp, i. 303. 



celebrated war path of the, ii. 28, 29. 



scalp, from the graves on Red River, 



ii. 124. 



their cruelty, ii. 126. 



tobacco pipes of the, ii. 140. 



bows and arrows of the, ii. 144. 



principal bands of the nation, ii. 153. 



their hunting grounds, ii. 153. 



meaning of their name, ii. 153. 



enumeration of the principal bands, ii. 



154. 



their conjurors, ii. 154. 



their mode of expressing time and 



distance, ii. 154. 



names of their months, ii. 155. 



their common and sacred language, ii. 



155. 



specimen of their language, ii. 156. 



probability of a war between the 



United States and the Sioux, ii. 



168. 



territory inhabited by the, ii. 180. 



Six Nations, formation of the, ii. 1 34. 



