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Aboinug (Roasters), Ojibway name for Dakotas, 36, 95, 103
Achipoue (Ojibway), 398, 408
Adam, progenitor of the race, 55, 58
Adders, Ojibway name for Dakotas and Six Nations, 72, 83
Adoption, as brothers, 269
Agriculture attempted by Indians, 40, 97
Ah-ah-wauk, clan or Totem. See Loon.
Ah-mous (Little Bee), Ojibway chief, 47, 192, 319
Aish-ke-bug-e-koshe. See Flat Mouth.
Ais-sance (Little Clam), Ojibway chief, 47, 354
Aitkin, Alfred, killed, 484
Aitkin, Miss Matilda (Mrs. W.W. Warren), 14, 16
Aitkin, William A., 14, 115, 382, 383, 483, 489, 497
Aitkinsville, Minn., 384
Askin, Mr., British agent, 373, 375
A-ke-guiow, Ojibway chief, 192, 317
Ako (or Accault), Michael, 156
Algic race, or family, 25, 30, 31, 34, 41, 43, 60, 62, 138, 146, 147
Algonquin tribe, 30, 117, 118, 124
Allouez, Claude, 115, 116, 404, 408, 464, 471
America, how peopled originally, 60
American Board of Foreign Missions, 386
American Fur Company, 12, 140, 229
American government, mismanagement of Indians, 135
American people, responsibility on them, 23, 31
Amherst, Gen., 439
Amikouëts, 403, 413
André, Jesuit missionary, 408
Analogies between Hebrews and Algics, 53, 65, 67, 75
Ance-ke-we-naw, 38, 382, 392
Ancient mines. See "Copper."
Anderson, Thomas G., Pottawatomie trader, 32
Andreani, Count, 446
Anglo-Saxons, sweeping away red race, 23
Anguemance, Ojibway chief, 455
Animals, totems taken from, 42
An-ish-in-aub-ag, tradition about, 43
An-ish-in-aub-ag, other references, 37, 56, 57, 67, 68, 81
Apostle's Islands, 405
Apple River, Wis., Indian fight at, 499
Arickarees, 160, 179
Armatinger [or Ermitinger], English trader, 384, 460
Arrows, 277, 278
Arms and weapons, 98, 126. See, also, Fire Arms.
Ashmun, Samuel, fur trader, 384
Asiatic origin of American Indians, 61, 62, 71, 72, 74
Askin, John, report of, 460
Assenipoels Lake, 423
Assineboines, 84, 138, 140, 179, 184, 189, 261, 262, 323, 356, 378, 379
Astor Fur Company, 382, 383, 384, 385
Astor, John Jacob, 383, 385, 386
Atlantic Ocean, Ojibway emigration from, 76, 79
Au-daig-we (Crow's Flesh), Ojibway chief, 317
A-waus-e Clan, or Totem, 10, 44, 46, 99, 164, 165, 212, 256, 334
A-wish-toy-ah (Blacksmith), French trader, 275
Ayer, Rev. Frederic, missionary, 11, 406
Ayer, Mrs. Elizabeth T., 11, 20, 407

Ba-be-sig-aun-dib-ay (or Ba-ba-see-keen-da-se). See Curly Head.
Bad River, 117, 243, 262
Badge, or Symbol, 42, 45
Bagouache trading post, 417
Baker, B.F., post of, 487
Baldness among Ojibways, 46
Ball game (Baug-ah-ud-o-way), 201, 202, 265, 359
Balloqnet, Jesuit missionarj, 409
Bancroft, Geo., quoted, 90, 115, 116, 122
Baraga, Bishop, Ojibway missionary, 407
Bardwell, J.P., Ojibway missionary, 501
Bariband, early trader, 411
Barrett, trader, killed, 467
Battle customs, naked, etc., 84, 244
Battle Lake, 338, 342, 360
Battles with Foxes, on Lake Superior, 105; with Munduas, 91; with Iroquois, 147; with Odugamies, 152; of St. Croix Falls, 242, 245, 250, 254, 330, 351; of Elk River, 50, 238, 240; of Rum River, 50, 489; on Point Shagawaumikong, 103; at Mille Lacs, 161; at Point Prescott, 169, 219; do. at Sandy Lake, 227, 235; do. at Crow Wing, 230, 233, 235; do. at Prairie Rice Lake, 312; do. on Sunrise River, 328; do. at Willow River, 329; do. at Battle Lake, 338; do. at Pembina, 354; do. at Cross Lake, 351, 353; do. at Long Prairie, 353, 358, 359, 360; do. at Goose River, 364; do. on Western Prairie, 388; do. at Stillwater, 489; do. at Pokeguma, 491; do. at Kaposia, 493; do. at Shakopee, 502.
Baug-ah-ud-o-way, or ball, 201, 202, 205, 359
Bear Totem, 45, 49, 86, 87, 99, 124, 176, 185, 191, 254, 256, 206, 335
Beardash, eccentric Ojibway, 452, 453
Beaubassin, Hertel de, 430, 431
Beauharnois, Governor of Canada, 432
Beauleau, Bazille, 381, 382
Beaver trade, 176, 415, 418
Be-dud, Ojibway warrior, 346
Belcourt on the word Ojibway, 399
Bell, trader, 280, 289
Bell, Mrs., kills the negro "Tom," 289
Belle Prairie, Minn., 11
Bellin, the geographer, quoted, 164
Be-na, Ojibway warrior, 355
Berkshire, Mass., 9
Berthot, Colin, killed by Ojibways, 411
Be-she-ke (Buffalo), 49
Beujeu de Ville Monde, 431
Bi-a-jig (Ojibway warrior), 331, 332, 334
Bi-aus-wah (Ojibway warrior), 127, 222, 236, 240, 241, 347, 349
Bi-aus-wah (No. 2), 176, 183, 185
Bible, Holy, quoted, 46, 55, 58, 59, 60, 62, 65
Bible stories, similarity to Ojibway traditions, 70
Big Foot. See Ma-mong-e-se-do.
Big Marten (Ke-che-waub-ish-ashe), Ojibway warrior, 50, 236, 239, 240
Big Ojibway (chief), 305
Birch bark canoes, how made, etc, 40, 473
Birch trees, 175
Bison, hunting the, 40, 97, 175, 266, 355
Black Dog (Ojibway warrior), 387
Black Dog village, 156
Black Duck (Ojibway warrior), 364
Black Feet, the, 33, 34, 68, 70
Black Hawk, 32
Black Hawk war, 136
Blood for blood, Ojibway custom, 139, 307
Blue Eagle (Ojibway warrior), 361
Bois Forts Band, 39, 45, 85, 378
Boisquillot, early trader, 413
Bonga, fur trader, 381
Bonga, George, 488
Bonga, Jean, a negro slave, 488
Bonga, Pierre, 488
Bonga, Stephen, 488
Bostwick, Henry, British trader, 209
Boucher, Marie, 427
Boucher, Pierre, 98, 403, 427
Bougainville, describes western posts, 429
Bourbon River, 414
Boudinot, Elias, quoted, 62
Boutwell, Rev. W.T., Ojibway visionary, 11, 12, 20, 62, 406, 478, 482, 484
Boweting, Mich. See Sault Ste. Marie.
Bow-it-ig-o-win-in (Ojibway warrior), 289
Bradstreet, General, 217, 441
Breché-dent. See Broken Tooth.
Bridger, John, at Hudson's Bay, 414
Brinton, D.G., quoted, 42
British far traders, hire American clerks, 9
British, The, 32, 146; receive Canada, 195; their influence ended by Pike, 349
Broken Tooth (Ojibway chief), 349, 350, 365, 366, 459, 477, 494
Brother, adoption as, 269
Bruce, Ojibway half-breed, 281
Bruce, Mr., fur trader, 381
Brule, Stephen, early voyageur, 399
Brunette, Francis, 484
Brunett, Jean, 12, 390, 391
Brunson, Rev. Alfred, quoted, 10, 11, 14, 495
Bruske, trader, 451
Buade, Lake. See Mille Lacs.
Buffaloes. See Bison.
Buffalo (an Ojibway chief), 464
Bug-aun-auk (Ojibway warrior), 388
Bulger, Capt., 461
Bunker Hill, Gen. Warren's death, 9
Burial customs of Ojibways, 72
Burning captives, 36, 82, 95, 107
Burning grass, at Elk River fight, 238
Burnt Wood River, 252
Burr, Aaron, 442
Bus-in-au-see. See Crane Totem.

Cadeau (Cadotte), Mons., 10, 212, 279
Cadillac, La Mothe, on Hurons and Ottawas, 405, 407
Cadillac, describes Mackinaw, 417; succeeds Louvigny, 420
Cadottes, their ancestry, 10, 378
Cadotte, J.B., Sr., 10, 116, 131, 195, 210, 212, 215, 220, 279, 290, 299, 304, 334, 336, 337, 378, 381, 433, 440, 448
Cadotte, Mrs. J.B., Sr., 10, 296
Cadotte, J.B., Jr., 10, 11, 213, 372, 449, 451
Cadotte, Joseph, 450
Cadotte, Louis, 490
Cadotte, Michel, Sr., 9, 10, 11, 96, 111, 131, 145, 213, 282, 299, 320, 321, 323, 324, 326, 372, 381, 384, 449
Cadotte, Mrs. Michel, Sr., 282, 296, 321
Cadotte, Michel, Jr., 372, 373, 376, 460
Cahokias, 218
Calhoun, Hon. John C, 464
Cameron, trader, 281
Canada, 31, 37, 155, 195, 368, 372, 386
Caniengas, 42
Cannibalism, among Ojibways, 109, 308
Canoes, how made, etc., 40, 98, 105, 473, 288
Captives, roasting to death, 36, 82, 95, 106, 107
Cardonniere, French trader, 411
Carter, Jacques, 90
Carver, Jonathan, 442, 508
Cass, Gov. Lewis, 47, 317, 392, 462, 463, 468, 470, 471
Cass Lake, 38, 175, 178. 183, 185, 224, 225, 281, 326, 336
Catawbeta. See Broken Tooth.
Catfish Totem, 45, 86, 87, 185, 318
Catlin, George, Indian portrait painter, 114, 490
Census, of Ojibwa tribe, 39
Ceremonies, Medawe, foolish, 67, 77
Cession of Canada, 378
Chabouillez, Charles, trader, 381, 451, 452
Chagouamigon, Shagawaumikong, or La Pointe, 48, 86, 88, 91, 95, 96, 102, 103, 104, 109, 115, 116, 123, 126, 130, 132, 167, 189, 219, 221, 243, 253, 254, 280, 323, 325, 331; first traders at, 402, 403; described by Allonez, 404; bark chapel at, 404, 406; Indians at, 405; early notice of, 405; abandoned by missionaries, 407; Le Sueur at, 419; St. Pierre at, 423; Luictot at, 423; La Ronde at, 426
Champlain, quoted, 98; his map, 400
Champlin, sailing master, 460
Chaouanou. See Shawnees.
Charatte, fur trader, 382
Chesne, Indian leader, 432
Che-suh-yauh, Ojibway chief, 48
Chevrottiere, Sieur de la, 408
Cheyenne River, Indian fight at, 453
Chianokwut, Ojibway chief, 477
Chicago, Ill., 32
Chingouabe, Ojibway chief, 420, 421
Chippeway, incorrect spelling of "Ojibway," which see.
Chippeway (Saulteurs) River, on Franquelin's map of 1688, 408
Chippeway River, Wis., 12, 38, 39, 49, 50, 129, 149, 181, 190, 192, 219, 292, 299, 319, 300, 301, 302, 304, 305, 308, 317, 320, 321, 326, 389
Chippeway City, Wis., 12
Chippeway Falls, Wis., 12
Chippeway Mills, Wis., 308
Chouart. See Groseilliers.
Christineaux, 422, 424, 428
Chronology, of the Ojibways, 26
Clairvoyance among Indians, 27
Clark, Gov., 468
Clark, Capt. Nathan, 474
Clarkson, N.Y., 12
Coats of arms (Totems), 35
Colbert, 99
Conner, Patrick, 384
Convocation of tribes at Sault Ste Marie, 316
Conspiracy of Pontiac. See Pontiac.
Copper, 40, 98, 141, 221, 392; found by voyagers of Groseilliers, 404; worked by Indians, 404; mine near Chagouamigon, 424; superstitions about, 472; early notices of, 400, 404, 471
Corbin, John Bte, trader, 145, 321, 325, 381, 382, 383, 390
Cormorant Point (Mille Lacs), 160
Cotte, trader, 381, 382, 383
Coureurs du bois, 10
Coutouse, Mons, clerk, 294, 295, 296
Crane Totem, 44, 45, 46, 47, 86, 88, 99, 124, 131, 192, 316, 317, 318, 348, 375, 392
Crawford, English trader, 460
Crees, The. See Kenistenoag.
Cresafi, chevalier, 420
Cross Lake (Sa-sub-a-gum-aw), 348
Crow River, 235, 272
Crow Wing, battle of, 162
Crow Wing, mentioned, 14, 69, 178, 180, 217, 266, 271, 344, 345, 348, 352, 364, 381
Crow Wing River, 33, 222, 224, 229, 257, 263, 266, 275, 282, 326, 349
Crucifix, ancient, found at Bad River, 117
Curly Head (Ba-be-sig-aun-dib-ay), Ojibway chief, 47, 348, 349, 350, 352, 366, 469, 470, 495
Customs, analogy between Jews and Ojibways, 63, 65, 67, 68, 65

D'Ablon, Jesuit missionary, 408
Dakotas, or Sioux, called "Roasters" by the Ojibways, 36; their lands conquered by the Ojibways, 38; the totemic system not known among them, 43, 61; called "Naudowasewig" by Ojibways, 72; also as "Aboinug" (Roasters), 95; ignorant of firearms, 120, 126; Dakota legend of warrior slain at Crow Wing, 232; they attack a French trader's house, 277; attack J.B. Cadotte's post, 283; claim to be better fighters on the praire than Ojibways, 312: various references to, 3, 43, 47, 49, 50, 61, 62, 72, 83, 84, 91, 96, 101, 102, 106, 108, 115, 120, 126, 127, 130, 138, 140, 146, 148, 153, 155, 156, 158, 159, 160, 162, 163, 176, l83, 187, 188, 193, 219, 223, 235, 242, 244, 250, 254, 267, 268, 271, 275, 280, 282, 303, 305, 308, 310, 320, 327, 331, 338, 344, 351, 354, 356, 358, 360, 364, 370, 387, 410, 428, 476, 482, 486, 489, 491, 499
Daumont, Sieur du Lusson, 10
Davenport, Col. U.S.A., 483
Dead River (Ne-bo-se-be), 140, 261
Dease, F.M., trader, 465
De Bonne, Capt., 433
De Chairgny, Francois, 408
D'Esprit Pierre. See Radisson.
De Callières, 415
Default, a trader, 450
Deity, the Ojibway idea of, 55, 59, 63, 64
De la Chaise, French priest, 414
De la Durantaye, 415, 418
De la Ferte, 413
De la tour, Jesuit missionary, 413
Delawares, 32, 56
De Lorimer, 432
Deluge, Noachic, 55, 56
De Mantlet, 413
Denonville, on copper, 472
De Moramport Du Plessis, 431
De Ramelia at Nepigon, 431
De Repentigny, 413
De Smet, missionary, 68
Detroit, Mich., 32, 33, 126, 140, 153, 194, 205, 214, 216, 217, 218, 322, 323, 372, 384
Detroit Gazette, quoted, 145
De Vandreuil, dispatch of, 422
D'Iberville quoted, 33
Dickson, Col. Robert, 362, 363, 369, 370, 371, 460, 461, 465
Dingley, Daniel, trader, 384
Disease, how cured and prevented, 100
Divisions and subdivisions among Ojibways, 41
Do-daim. See Totem.
Dodge, Henry, Indian Commissioner, 485
Dole, Maj., Indian commissioner, 504
Domestic and chase implements of Ojibways, 97
Doty, James D., 462
Draper, Dr. Lyman C., quoted, 439
Dress of Ojibways, 98
Dreuilletes, Jesuit, 408
Drew, John, fur trader, 383
Drummond's Isle, 116
Drunkenness among Ojibways, 31, 120, 301
Duchene, trader, 382
Duchesneau, intendant of Canada, 31
Dugay, a Picard, 156
Du Lusson, Sieur, 131, 212
Duluth, Daniel, quoted, 162; near Sault Ste. Marie, 409; erects trading post at Kamanistigua, 409; descends St. Croix River, 410; visits France, 410; memoir by, 410; prepares to visit Sioux, 410; executes two Ojibways, 413, 414; at Niagara, 415; erects Fort St. Joseph, 415; fights the Senecas, 415
Du Quesne, Gov. of Canada, 429, 486
Duvant, trader, 382
Dutch, in New York, 146

East Savannah River, 177, 180
Eel River, Ind., 33
Elk River, 236, 238, 240
Elk River, battles at, 50, 238, 240
Ely, E.F., mission teacher, 493
Emigration of Ojibways from Asia, 74
Emigration of Ojibways from Atlantic Ocean, 76, 79
Engelran, Jesuit missionary, 410, 411
English, Mrs. Mary (Warren), 12, 20
Esch-ke-bug-e-coshe. See Flat Mouth.
Etherington, Maj., 201
Etienne, Claude, 401
Execution of Indian murderer, 389

Families or clans, totemic, 34
Family register, Ojibway, 89
Family, known by badge, 42
Fasts, 64, 65, 66, 100
Feasts, sacrificial, 100
Ferry. Rev. William, 406, 478
Findley, trader, killed by Ojibways, 390, 393, 467
Firearms introduced among Ojibways, 36, 108, 119, 120, 138, 161, 223, 277, 278
Fire, torture by, 36, 82, 95, 106, 107
Fire, continual, kept up on La Pointe Island, 99
Fire water, first given to Indians, 119
First post erected by whites, 137
Fishing, Ojibways lived by, at La Pointe. 97
Flat Mouth (Esch-ke-bug-e-coshe), Ojibway chief, 17, 19, 45, 50, 138, 178, 179, 223, 269, 275, 324, 342, 343, 349, 350, 352, 359, 360, 362, 363, 369, 459, 463, 465, 466, 475, 476, 478, 479, 480
Fletcher, Gen. J.E., Indian agent, 14
Folles Avoines. See Menominees.
Fond du Lac, 14, 50, 81, 84, 130, 134, 158, 160, 176, 177, 252, 260, 262, 281, 282, 288, 292, 294, 295, 382, 383, 389, 392, 393
Food, how got by Ojibways, 40
Forsyths, fur traders, 380
Fort Bourbon, 429
Fort Dauphin, 429
Fort Des Prairies, 430
Fort Detroit, 201
Fort Du Quesne, 194
Fort Erie, 218
Fort Howard, 372, 374, 376
Fort Jonquiere, 429
Fort La Reine, 429
Fort Mackinaw (or Michilimakinac), captare of, 200, 204, 210, 218, 217, 373
Fort Niagara, 217, 416
Fort Poskoyac, 429
Fort Repentigny, 435
Fort Ripley, 266
Fort Snelling, 166, 865, 867, 890, 391, 474, 476, 486
Fort St. Antoine, 419
Fort St. Charles, 429
Fort St. Croix, 411
Fort St. Joseph, 416
Fort St. Pierre, 429
Fourcelle, Chevalier, 411
Foxes. See Odugamies.
Fox River, Wis., 82, 192, 242
France, 99, 378
Franks, a trader, 460
Franquelin's map (1688), quoted, 155, 821, 401, 404
French (Canadian), 116, 117, 130, 131, 137, 141, 146, 153, 163, 164, 220, 316, 373
French, the name the Ojibways called them, 116
French cession of North America, 194, 195
French intermarried largely with Ojibways, 132, 133, 195, 198
Frobisher, far trader, 380
Frontenac, Count, Gov. of Canada, 155, 163; feasts Indians, 417; in council with Ojibways, 421; censures Le Boesme, 409
Fur trade, the, 9, 125, 130, 134
Fur trade, the, its palmy days, 380, 381
Fur traders on Lake Superior, 378, 446
Fur traders, change in personnel, 385
Future life, Ojibway ideas of, 73

Gage, General, his estimate of Rogers, 442, 443
Gallinee, a Sulpitian at Sault Ste. Marie, 406
Game, abundance of, once, 97, 266
Game, how hunted by the Ojibways, 263
Gamelle's wife killed by Ojibways, 493
Garland, Major U.S.A., 475
Gaston, Jean Baptiste, 397
Ga-ta-ge-te-gaun-ing (Vieux Desert), 38
Gaulthier, trader, 381
Gaultier, Magdalene, 427
Gaultier, Marie, 427
Gaultier, Rene, 427
Gaultier, Pierre, 427
Gauss Lake, 224
Generations, how counted by Ojibways, 89
Gladwyn, Major, 201
God, Ojibway ideas of, 56, 59, 63, 64
Good Road band, Dakotas, 156
Gorrel, Lt., 439
Graham, Duncan, 465
Grand Island, 243
Grand Portage, 52, 84, 86, 129, 137, 140, 143, 177, 189, 219, 243, 262, 281, 288, 292, 321, 378, 382
Gravier, Father, 82
Great Britain, 378, 879
Great Buffalo, Ojibway chief, 48, 86, 147, 221, 246
Great Cloud (Keche-ann-oguet), Ojibway Chief, 370
Great Lake. See Winnipeg.
Great Spirit, ideas of, 58, 59, 63, 64, 87, 93, 99, 117, 198, 244
Greeley, Elam, 471
Green, Rev. Beriah, 12
Green Bay, Wis., 32, 33, 37, 43, 209, 315, 331, 332
Gregory, fur trader, 380
Gray Iron's Band, Dakotas, 156
Groseilliers, early explorer, 401, 402, 403, 407, 414
Gros Ventres, the, 178, 179, 181, 261
Gulf of Mexico, 279
Gull Lake, 14, 38, 117, 178. 180, 224, 263, 266, 349, 352, 366, 367
Gull River, 224

Hainault, Elizabeth, 401
Hainault, Madeleine, 401
Hale, Horatio, quoted, 42
Hall, Rev. Sherman, missionary, 406, 464
Hanks, Lt. Porter, 460
Harmer, Fort, 32
Harris, early trader, 450
Harrisse, editor of Du Luth's letter, 410
Hartford, Conn., 9
Haslet, Colonel, 444
Hawley, far trader, 382
Hay River, Wis., 313, 320
Hays, I.P., Indian agent, 14
Healing sick, Ojibway plan, 100
Heaven, Ojibway idea of, 73
Hebrews, the, 53, 65, 67, 75
Hennepin, Father, 116, 155, 156, 162
Henry, Alex., trader, 99, 181, 196, 204, 213, 215, 217, 221, 378, 441, 444
Henry, his work quoted, 10, 256, 279, 280, 290, 293
Henry (of Northwest Company), 292, 450, 454
Heraldry, European, totemic in character, 35
History of Ojibways known only five centuries, 76
Holcomb, Wm., 492
Hole-in-day, elder, 47, 353, 354
Hole-in-day, younger, 49
Holiday, John, trader, 382, 467
Holliday, Wm., trader, 392
Holmes, Major, 461
Howard, Captain, 442
Howe, General, 444
Hudson Bay Company, 70, 138, 189, 279, 349, 380, 381
Hughes, killed at Red Lake, 456, 458
Huron, Lake, 80, 99, 147, 194, 196, 199
Hurons, tribe of, 116, 144, 400, 405, 407

I-aub-aus, Ojibway chief, 165, 335
Illinois tribe, 33, 116, 218, 406
Improvidence of fur traders, 11
Indian race of U.S. disappearing, 23
Indian Territory, 32
Indians, their summer customs, 251
Indians misrepresented as morose, 133
Initiation into the Medawe rites. See Medawe.
Intermarriage between whites and Ojibways, 195, 255, 325, 385
Intermarriage between Dakotas and Ojibways, 158, 164, 171, 219, 270
Interpreter, J.B. Cadotte's value, 116, 293
Iowa, Sacs and Foxes cede lands, 32
Iron River, 426
Iroquois, the, 42, 146, 147, 148, 280
Iroquois Point, battle of, 403
Irving, Washington, 26
Islands, Ojibways occupy for safety, 187
Isle aux Outards, 214
Isle de Tour, or St. Michel, 321
Isle Drummond, 372
Isle la Pointe. See Chagouamigon.
Isle la Ronde, 405
Isle St. Michel, 405, 406
Isle Royale, 99
Israel, ten lost tribes of, 62, 67, 71, 72
Israelitish customs similar to Ojibway, 63, 65, 67, 68, 75

Jefferson, Thomas, censure of La Corne, 429
Jenette [or Jamett], Lieut., killed at Mackinaw, 205, 440
Jesuit Relations quoted, 32
Jesuit missions, 26, 57, 113, 114, 123
Jesuits and beaver trade, 414
Jews. See Hebrews.
Jobin, trader, killed, 420
Johnson, Sir Wm., 4, 210, 217, 218, 220, 398, 438
Johnson, John, 254, 382, 446, 447, 448, 460, 493
Joliet, Sieur, 408
Joseph, a French trader, 141
Jump River, 301

Ka-dow-aub-e-da. See Broken Tooth.
Ka-gua-dash, Ojibway chief, 335
Ka-nim-dum-a-win-so, Ojibwa chief, 91
Ka-ka-ke (Hawk), Ojibway chief, 49, 193
Kaministigoya, or Kaministiquia, 292, 422, 423
Kane, Paul, an artist, 69
Kansas, 32
Kaposia, 156; battle of, 492; band, Dakotas, 156
Kaskaskias, the, 218
Kay, early trader, 450
Keating, historian of Long's Expedition, 406
Ke-che-aun-o-guet (Great Cloud), Ojibway chief, 370
Ke-che-mun-e-do (Great Spirit), 64
Ke-che-ne-zuh-yauh, Ojibway chief, 131, 132, 316
Ke-che-puk-wai-wah Lake, Wis., 314
Ke-che-waub-keenh. See Great Buffalo.
Ke-che-waub-ish-ash. See Big Marten.
Kewaynokwot, 467
Keweenaw, 412, 424, 427
Ke-dug-a-be-shew (Speckled Lynx), Ojibway chief, 295, 319
Keesh-ke-mun (Sharpened Stone), Ojibway chief, 48, 192, 318, 319, 325, 372, 375, 391
Ke-nis-ten-o-ag, or Kenisteno, the Crees, 33, 84, 136, 138, 139, 140, 179, 180, 184, 185, 189, 261, 262, 323, 337, 356, 378, 379
Kirk, Sir John, 401
Ki-yuk-sa Band, Dakotas, 156
Knife Lake, 172, 223, 335
Knife River, 181
Kuk-ke-wa-on-an-ing (L'Ance), 243

Lac Coutereille (Lake Ottaway), Wis., 10, 39, 191, 193, 292, 294, 299, 300, 301, 305, 310, 314, 318, 319, 320, 321, 323, 324, 325, 381, 382, 383, 384, 390
La Cloche Island, 196, 430
Lac du Flambeau, Wis. 10, 47, 191, 192, 193, 299, 300, 301, 314, 317, 318, 319, 326, 382, 383, 384, 389, 391
Lac du Flambeau Band, 43, 192
Lac la Folle. See Prairie Rice Lake.
La Corne, de St. Luc, notice of, 439
La Corne, the elder, 432
La Croix, a trader, 460
La Crosse, 32
Lac Shatac, 191, 294, 314, 319
La Fortune, 412
La Harpe, Bernard de, quoted, 183
Lahontan, visits Sault Ste. Marie, 416; burns Fort St. Joseph, 417
La Jonquiere. Gov. of Canada, 433
Lake Erie, 247
Lake Michigan, 82, 148, 192, 199, 331
Lake of Two Mountains, Canada, 30
Lake of the Woods, 37, 256; trading post on, 428; massacre at, 428
Lake Pepin, 156, 164, 303, 390, 391
Lake Superior, 4, 9, 10, 11, 25, 37, 38, 40, 46, 52, 81, 83, 86, 95, 98, 99, 115, 116, 123, 124, 130, 137, 138, 141, 147, 155, 157, 163, 166, 183, 185, 189, 190, 193, 195, 209, 210, 219, 252, 262, 281, 286, 292, 304, 317, 318, 321, 325, 331, 344, 348, 368, 369, 372, 376, 378, 379, 381, 389, 392
Lake Winnebago, 38
Lake Winnipeg Indians, A.D. 1736, 428
Landré, trader's clerk, 296
Langlade, French trader, 208, 436, 460
Languages, how differing, 34
Lanman, Charles, quoted, 114
La Noüe, St. Robertel, 423, 424
L'Anse Bay, 86
La Plante, 432
La Pointe, or Chagouamigon, 8, 19, 11, 12, 13, 38, 48, 52, 79, 81, 86, 90, 127, 131, 191, 192, 193, 195, 210, 218, 219, 221, 243, 252, 259, 282, 300, 317, 321, 324, 325, 326, 372, 383, 384, 393
La Pointe band, 48
La Pointe Island, 96, 99, 101, 102, 104, 105, 108, 109, 110, 111, 118, 121, 126, 140, 141, 405, 406, 407, 431, 447, 463, 464, 494
La Pointe town, 117, 119, 124, l47, 177
La Pointe du St. Esprit, 405
La Ronde family, 426
La Ronde Island, 405
La Ronde, Sieur, at Chagouamigon, 426; seeks for copper, 426, 472, builds sailing-vessel on Lake Superior, 426; sickness of, 426
La Ronde, Ensign, 426
La Roque, trader, 303, 304
La Salle, quoted, 156; at Sault Ste. Marie, 409; mentions Ojibways, 410
Leaf Lake, 338, 360, 370
Leaf River, 282, 287. 326, 370
Le Boerne (Bohesme), a lay Jesuit, censured by Gov. Frontenac, 409
Le Bud-ee, Ojibway warrior, 313, 314
Lee, Arthur, of Va., 4
Leech Lake, 3, 11, 17, 38, 39, 49, 50, 175, 178, 183, 184, 185, 224, 225, 256, 257, 262, 263, 271, 281, 282, 288, 292, 324, 326, 336, 343, 350, 369, 371, 376; Pike visits, 458; Boutwell, do., 478, 482; Nicollet, do., 482
Le France, Joseph, visits Winnipeg, 428
Legardeur, Jacques, Siuar St. Pierre, 428
Legardeur, Louis. See Repentigny.
Legardeur, Paul, Sieur St. Pierre, 428
Legend of slain warrior at Crow Wing, 232
Legend of Yellow Hair, 269
Legend. See also Tradition.
Legislature, Minna., Warren elected to, 14
Le Maire, murdered by Ojibways, 411
Lenni Lenape, the, 56, 57
Lesley, Lt., 440
Le Sueur, the explorer, 157, 162, 163, 419, 420
Libby, a whiskey seller, 489
Libraries, public, want of, in Minna., 17, 26
Little Crow, or "Big Thunder," a Dakota chief, 492, 493
Little Eddy, Ojibway warrior, 393
Liquor drinking among Indians, 301
Lodge, council, how built, 51
Lodge, medicine, 66, 77
Longeuil, Gov., addresses Ojibways, 424
Longevity, more common formerly than now, 101, 102
Long Knife, Indian name for Yankees, 127
Longlade. See Langlade.
Long Lake, Wis., 191, 243
Long Prairie, Minn., 266, 267, 270, 272, 344, 352, 359
Loon Totem, 45, 46, 48, 86, 87, 88, 89, 127, 317
Louvigny at Mackinaw, 417

McGillis, Hugh, of N.W. Co., 381, 450
McGillivary, Wm., 292, 380. 477
McKenzie, Sir Alex., 290, 292, 293, 294, 380
McKenzie, R., 292
McKenney, T.L., 445, 447
McMahon, surgeon, U.S.A., 475
McTavish, trader, 380
Mackinaw (or Michilimackinac), 11, 12, 14, 124, 126, 134, 141, 147, 194, 200, 214, 215, 216, 226, 259, 262, 280, 288, 355, 369, 372, 384, 386, 392; on mainland, described by Cadillac, 417; captured by Ojibways, 205, 439; occupied by English, 442
Mackinaw Island, captured by the English, A.D. 1812, 459
Maçons, a trader, 412
Madeline Island, 321
Magruder, Lt. W.B., 502
Maheengun, Wolf Totem, 45, 49, 319
Ma-mong-e-se-do (Big Foot), Ojibway chief, 52, 195, 218, 219, 220, 243, 248
Manabosho, Ojibway deity, 27, 56, 57, 79, 102
Mandans, the, 181
Manitowish, 300
Map, of Lake Superior (1670–71), 405; of N. Bellin (1744), 405, 426; of De L'Isle, 405, 424; of Veranderie, 428
Maple Sugar, 186, 263
Margry papers, quoted, 10
Marquette, 116, 407
Marriage, forbidden between same totems, 35, 42
Marten Totem, 45, 50, 51, 86, 87, 94, 130, 159, 318
Martin, Abraham, pilot, 401
Masonic order, 42, 66
Massacre at Fort Mackinaw, 204
Matchikiwish, Ojibway chief, 216, 439, 440
Maumies. See Miamis.
Mayflower, the, 9, 30
Mdé wakantons, the, 156, 162, 223, 232, 359
Measles, the, 335
Medal, golden, given to Ke-che-ne-zuh-yauh, 317
Medawe rite, 46. 55, 56, 64, 66, 67, 77, 99, 100, 191, 193, 265, 322
Medawegis, sacred emblem of Medawe rite, 78
Medicine Bag, Ojibway, 68, 77, 323
Medicine, grand (Medawewin), 66
Medicine lodge, described, 77
Medicine men, healing sick, 100; poisoners, 109, 270, 324
Memoir of W.W. Warren, 9
Menard, Jesuit missionary, 404
Mendota, Minn., 156, 162
Menominees, 33, 371
Menominee River, 304, 309
Merman, a Dakota symbol, 43, 165
Miamis (Omaumees), 33, 162, 218
Michigan, 32, 37, 369, 386
Michilimackinao. See Mackinaw.
Migrations of the Ojibways, 91
Mille Laos (Lake Buade), 49, 50, 155, 157, 159, 160, 163, 165, 176, 178, 180, 223, 243, 335, 345, 351, 359
Milwaukee, Wis., 32
Milwaukee River, 33
Min-ah-ig-wan-tig (Drinking Wood), Ojibway warrior, 224
Mines, ancient. See Copper.
Minnesota, 14, 17, 26, 37, 38, 137, 155, 292, 379, 386
Minnesota Historical Society, 18; officers and members of, 513
Minnesota Historical Collections, quoted, 369
Minnesota River, 156, 185, 232, 236, 365, 367
Min-ne-weh-na, Ojibway chief, 199, 200, 206, 207, 210
Mis-ko-mun-e-dous (Little Red Spirit), Ojibway chief, 318
Missions, A.B.C.F.M., 140
Mission school at Mackinaw, 386; at Pokeguma, 491
Missisaukie, Straits of Niagara, 214
Mississippi River, 108, 153, 155, 156, 157, 163, 175, 185, 189, 191, 210, 212, 219, 222, 225, 226, 227, 228, 235, 242, 247, 263, 270, 279, 280, 292, 299, 305, 317, 328, 331, 344, 355, 379
Mississippi River band, 39
Missouri River, 3, 32. 68, 160, 178, 179, 181, 261
Mixed bloods, 279, 386, 393
Moccasin, peculiarity of the Ojibway, 36
Mogras, Jacques, 408
Mon-ing-wun-a-kaun-ing. See La Pointe Island.
Moningwunakauning, meaning of the name, 96
Mon-so-ne (Moose Tail), Ojibway chief, 318, 327
Mon-so-bou-dah, Ojibway chief, 391, 392
Montcalm, Gen., 195, 220
Montreal, 31, 80, 105, 116, 126, 134, 143, 144, 145, 181, 194, 195, 205, 209, 215, 220, 221, 252, 279, 280, 290, 378, 381
Morals of the Ojibways, deteriorating, 101
Moreau, Pierre, 408
Morrison, Allan, 228, 381
Morrison, Wm., 115, 145, 381, 382, 383, 431
Moose, how caught, 97, 176, 253
Moose totem, 50, 51, 86, 87
Mounds, supposed, only earth wigwams, 162, 179, 180, 182
Mourning among Ojibways, 264
Mousoneeg, family of Totems, 50
Mud Lake, near Ft. Snelling, 487
Muk-ud-a-shib (Black Duck), Ojibway chief, 50
Mundamin, Indian corn, 97
Munduas, the, 50, 91
Mun-o-min-i-ka-she (Rice Maker), 49, 335
Murder, among Indians, 139
Murder of a French trader and family, 141
Murder of four white men, 390
Murderer, how treated by the Hurons, 144
Murderer, Indian, punished
Muscalonge, 175
Musk-keeg-oes, or Swamp People, 33, 45, 85, 378

Na-gu-on-a-be (Feathers end), Ojibway chief, 49, 165, 335
Naudoways, or Naudowaig (Iroquois), 83, 119, 146, 147, 148
Naudowasewug, or Adders (Dakotas), 72, 83
Negro, slaves, emancipation of, 23
Neill, Rev. E.D., officiates at Mr. Warren's funeral, 18; foot-notes by, 23, 31, 32, 33, 42, 69, 95, 98, 99, 115, 116, 117, 131, 145, 148, 156, 157, 162, 164, 172, 181, 247, 256, 279, 281, 317, 321, 369; his history quoted, 156, 292, 369; chapter on Ojibways and the fur-trade, 395 to 509
Nelson's River, 414
Nemaha River, 33
Nemitsakouat, or Bois Brule River, 410
Nepigon, 412, 417, 426, 431
Nepissings, 403
New York City, 18
New York colonial documents quoted, 32, 247
Niagara, 194
Niagara surrendered by French, 438
Niagara, straits of, 214, 216
Nicollet, Jean, early explorer, 400, 423, 428
Nicollet, Jean N., U.S. Geologist, quoted, 32, 185, 257, 308, 342, 357, 482, 483
Nicollet, Margaret, 428
Nig-gig (the Otter), Ojibway warrior, 325
No-din (Ojibway chief), 335
No-ka (or Bear Totem), 49
No-ka, Ojibway chief, 235, 236, 266
Nolin, Augustin, 381, 460
Nonen, wife of Wa-wa-tam, 214
Northern Ojibways, language of, 85; less warlike than others, 86
Northwest County of Montreal, 181, 288, 290, 291, 294, 321, 349, 350, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 450, 452, 461
Noyelle, deputy at Mackinaw, 432
Nub-o-beence (Little Broth), 389
Nug-an-ash, Ojibway warrior, 361
Nug-aun-ub (Sitting-ahead), Ojibway chief, 50, 130
Numakagun River, 243, 300, 326

Oakes, Charles H., trader, 384
Oak Grove band, Dakotas, 156
Oak Point, 326
Ochunkraw. See Winnebagoes.
O-dah-waug. See Ottaways.
Odish-quag-um-eeg, 33
Odjibwa, how pronounced, 35
Odugameeg. See Odugamies.
Odugamies (Foxes), 32, 33, 95, 148, 152, 154, 162, 176, 180, 190, 191, 193, 242, 244, 245, 246, 247, 250, 331, 405
Oge-mah-mi-jew (Chief's Mountain), 343
Ogilvys, fur traders, 380
Ohio River, 32
Ojibway, supposed meaning, 36, 398; how correctly spelled, 37; etymology of the name, 82; how derived, 107; name usually spelled "Chippewa," 37
Ojibways, the: the principal branch of the Algic race, 31; the origin of, 54, 55, 61; their chronology, 90; cause of emigration from the Atlantic, 82; where located, 37; minor divisions into bands, 38, 39, 83; their position, numbers, etc. (1851), 35; the northern division, language, etc., 85; general account of (in 1851), 29; total population 20,000, 38; their domestic implements, 97; did not work copper mines, 99; found a town on La Pointe Inland, 96; perpetual fire kept up there, 99; lived there by fishing, 97; their dispersion from La Pointe, 108, 110, 121; prevented from joining Pontiac, 211; loyal to the U.S. in 1812, 368; had firearms prior to the Dakotas, 120; make peace truces with the Dakotas, 267; are better fighters in the forest than on prairie, 312; their changing habits, 25; did they practise cannibalism, 109; partial to the French people, 133, 134; learned custom of torture from the Foxes, 106; inhabit a country of lakes, rivers, and forests, 39; their totemic system, 34; burial rites of, 72; customs of mourning, 264; have clear idea of creator, 63; their religious customs, 100; belief in future state, 72; their morals once purer than now, 101; their final extinction inevitable, 72; early mention of, 398; at Chagouamigon Bay, 403; defeat Iroquois at Lake Superior, 404; in 1670 at Sault Ste. Marie, 406; in council with St. Lusson, 408; settle at Chagouamigon, 408, 420; at peace in 1679 with Sioux, 410; executed for killing Frenchmen, 411; confer with Frontenac, 420; addressed by Gov, Longeuil, 427; census of, A.D. 1736, 427; at Ticonderoga, 432; at Niagara, 438; capture Mackinaw, 439; confer with Sir W. Johnson, 440; with Gen. Bradstreet, 441; visit to Johnson Hall, 444; attack Sioux A.D. 1766, 445; pillagers, 446; fight Sioux A.D. 1798, 452; engagement at Cheyenne River, 453; at Tongue River, 454; census in 1806, 459; fight in 1818 with Sioux, 461; visit Agent Taliaferro in A.D. 1820, 465; council of 1823 with Sioux, 465; make a treaty at Prairie du Chien, 467; at Fond du Lac, 470; visit Fort Snelling, 474; attacked in 1827 by Sioux, 475; kill captured Sioux, 475; dance the peace dance, 476; skirmish in 1832 with Sioux, 478; of 1833 with Sioux, 482; attacked at Pokeguma, 491; in 1883 in Minnesota, 507; in Wisconsin, 508; in Michigan, 508; in Canada, 509

Okeenakeequid, 472
Omaumee, name given Mille Lacs Indians, 162
O-maum-eeg. See Miamis.
O-mig-aun-dib (Sore Head), Ojibway chief, 171, 172
Omunomineeg. See Menominees.
O-mush-kas-ug, war on the, 84
O-mush-ke-goag, or Swampies. See Muek-keeg-oes.
Ontonagon River, 99, 104, 190, 221, 389, 393
Origin of red race, 54
Origin of red race possibly from Asia, 61
Origin of the Ojibways, 54, 55, 61
Osage River, 33
O-sang-ees (Saukies, or Sacs), 32, 33, 146, 153, 154, 201, 202, 218, 242, 247, 265, 405
Osh-ka-ba-wis, pipe bearer, 318
Otter, sacred, said to have built sand bar at mouth of St. Louis River, 81
Otter Tail Creek, 360
Otter Tail Lake, 38, 39, 287, 356, 300, 301
Ottaway, origin of name, 82
Ottawa Lake. See Lac Coutereille.
Ottawa River, 146, 147
Ottawas (Outawas), the, 31, 43, 69, 81, 82, 83, 116, 124, 130, 146, 149, 200, 200, 218, 247, 355, 369, 372, 405, 407, 413, 416, 417; leave Chagouamigon, 407; the band Du Sable, 413; the band Nassaouakiton, 405; the Sinagos baud, 405, 413
Ounangisse, Chief of Pottawatomies, 32
Ousakis. See Osaugies.
Outagamis. See Odugamies.
Outuacs. See Ottawas.

Pachot, Sieur, visits the Sioux, 424
Pangman, 380
Paris, 98, 99
Pauotigoueieuhak, or Ojibways, 397
Patridge or Pena River, 275
Peace truces between Dakotas and Ojibways, 188, 267, 304, 366, 476
Pegano. See Blackfeet.
Pelican Lake, Wis., 192, 309
Pelican Lake band, 315
Pembina, 184, 185, 189, 287, 288, 354, 358
Pembina River, early posts at, 452, 454
Pembina band, 40, 48
Pena or Patridge River, 275
Penalty, death, for marrying same totem, etc., 42
Penn, Wm., 30
Peorias, the, 218
Pere or Perray River, 411
Peré, the voyageur, 411, 413
Perrault, old trader, 450
Perrot, Nicholas, quoted, 148, 155, 157, 408, 411, 418
Philadelphia, 30
Pickette, trader, 280
Pictured Rocks, 86, 323
Pigeon River, 52, 83, 137, 262, 292, 378, 370
Pike, Lieut. Z.M., 349, 457
Pike's Rapids, 349
Pilgrim fathers, 30
Pillagers, band of, 17, 39, 40, 45, 138, 178, 256, 259, 260, 270, 271, 283, 336, 344, 349, 369, 376, 381, 446
Pillage Creek, 259
Pine River, 180
Pineries, Wisconsin, 40
Piouabic, meaning of, 426
Piouabic River, 420
Pipe bearer, Blackfeet, 68; Ojibway, 318
Pipestone quarry, 111
Platte River, 359, 364
Plymouth, Mass., 30
Plympton, Major, U.S.A., 487, 488
Pocahontas, 30
Po-da-waud-um-eeg. See Pottawatomies.
Poinsett, U.S. Sec. of War, 490
Point Douglas, 167, 173
Point Iroquois, how named, 147
Point Prescott, 167
Poisoning for revenge by medicine men, 270, 324
Pokeguma, 105, 171, 172, 175, 320, 335; mission at, 491; battle of, 491
Pokaguma Falls, 225, 320
Pomme de Terre River fight, 401
Pond, fur trader, 380
Pond, Rev. Gideon H., 486
Pond, Rev. S.W., 487
Pontiac, 149, 199, 200, 210, 214, 218, 439, 440
Poor, Sir Edward, 69
Portage, 38
Pothier, a trader, 460
Pottawatomies, 32, 43, 81, 82, 83, 124, 140, 218, 309, 372
Potter, Nathaniel, visits Ojibways, 442
Poux, contraction for Ponteaoutin, 32
Pow-hat-tan, 30
Prairie du Chien, 317, 390, 391
Prairie portage, 281, 287, 288
Preston, English ambassador at Paris, notices Groseilliers and Radisson, 414
Prairie Rice Lake, 308, 310, 313
Price, Mrs. E.B., 18
Prices paid for beaver, 415
Priesthood among Ojibways. See Medecine Men.
Prophet, the Shawano, 118, 320, 321, 323
Prophet, Ojibwa, prediction by, 117
Puk-wah, Rice Lake, 180
Puk-wah-wan-uh, 119

Quebec, 30, 31, 99, 116, 122, 123, 126, 130, 134, 144, 194, 195, 220, 378
Que-wis-aus (Little Boy) Lake, 225

Rabbit Lake, Minn., 38
Race, human, origin of, 60
Radison, Sieur, notice of, 401; visit to France, 414
Radisson, Margaret, 401
Rainy Lake, 38, 84, 184, 185, 189, 202, 281, 288, 427
Ramsey, Gov. Alex., gives medal, 67; on word Ojibway, 399; visits the Ojibway country, 499; holds council at Fort Snelling, 500
Randin, Frontenac's engineer, visits extremity of Lake Superior, 409
Raratoans (People of the Falls), 96
Rasle, a voyageur, 281, 284
Red Cedar Lake, 191
Red Cedar River, Wis. (or Menominee), 309, 320
Red Lake, Minn., 38, 178, 185, 189, 281, 287, 289, 343, 350, 363, 364; first marked on a map, 428; trader killed at, 456
Red Lake band, 40, 180
Red race disappearing, 23, 31
Red race, their character not understood, 24
Red race to be ranged under several types, 29
Red race, origin of, 54
Red race, tradition regarding creation of, 58
Red race, did they descend from the Hebrews? 62
Red River, 38, 40, 47, 50, 138, 185, 261, 279, 281, 287, 288, 337, 355, 350, 358, 362, 364, 378, 428
Red post, or stake, striking the, 77, 144, 332
Red Wing, Minn., 156, 303
Red Wood River, 150
Reindeer Totem, 50, 52, 219
Relationship, in totemic system, 42
Religion. See Medawe.
Religion, 63, 72, 322
Religion, Christian, brought to Ojibways, 57
Renards, or Foxes. See Odugamies.
Renville, trader, 366
Repentigny, Chevalier de, at Mackinaw, 436; notice of, 433; at Sault Ste. Marie, 433; his fort, 434, 435; service in French and English war, 437; subsequent life, 437, 438
Revenge, blood for blood, 84
Revolutionary war, 9
Reyaulm, trader, 280
Rice, Hon. Henry M., gives manusoript, 3; conducts treaty at Fond du Lac, 14, 497; aids Mr. Warren in his work, 18; furnishes material for Warren's memoir, 20
Rice Lakes, 162, 164, 165, 171, 172, 335
Rice makers, band, 38
Rice, wild, people. See Menominees.
Rice, wild, gathering, 40, 175, 186, 246, 309
Rites, of Medawe. See Medawe.
Roasting captives, 36, 82, 95, 106, 107
Roberts, trader, 280
Roberts, Capt. Charles, 460
Robertson, Col. D.A., 15, 20
Rock Island, 32
Rocky Mountains, 33
Rogers, Maj. Robert, early life, 442; at Mackinaw, 442; his intrigue, 443, 444
Rolette, trader, 460
Roussain, trader, 381, 382, 383
Rum River, 155, 160, 162, 223, 230, 327
Russell, Jeremiah, 491

Sacs. See Osaugees.
Sacs and Foxes, 32, 33
Sacrifices, human, 109
Saginaw Bay, 213
Saint Anthony's Falls, 223, 232, 235, 366
Saint Clair, Gov. Arthur, 32
Saint Croix, department, 10
Saint Croix Falls, 244
Saint Croix Falls, battle at, 242
Saint Croix Lake, 381
Saint Croix River, 36, 39, 49, 50, 97, 126, 129, 130, 149, 160, 163, 164, 166, 167, 176, 242, 243, 292, 300, 317, 321, 326, 327, 329, 331, 335; explored, 410; why named, 419; fort, 411
Saint Germain, British interpreter, 369, 372, 381
Saint Joseph, Mich., 32, 33
Saint Joseph's River, 209
Saint Lawrence River, 76, 81, 119, 124, 145, 146, 147
Saint Louis River, 81, 115, 130, 180, 281, 288, 292
Saint Lusson, Sieur, 408
Saint Paul, Minn., 15, 18
Saint Pierre, Capt. Paul, 423, 424, 428, 433
Saint Pierre, Jacques Legardeur, 428, 433, 437
Saint Pierre, Marie, 429
Saint Pierre River, supposed origin of name, 419
Sandy Lake, 3, 38, 50, 91, 130, 176, 177, 180, 183, 185, 222, 224, 225, 227, 240, 243, 246, 251, 262, 263, 270, 272, 281, 283, 287, 288, 292, 344, 345, 348, 352, 358, 365
Sandy Lake band, 48
Sassaba, Ojibway chief, 462
Saukies. See Osaugees.
Sauks. See Osaugees.
Sauk Lake, 272
Sauk Rapids, 19, 259
Saulteaux, "Falls People," 123, 163
Sault Ste. Marie, 10, 37, 38, 47, 79, 80, 81, 83, 86, 87, 88, 96, 108, 116, 123, 126, 129, 130, 131, 137, 141, 145, 147, 177, 189, 192, 194, 210, 212, 214, 215, 217, 221, 226, 243, 250, 259, 280, 281, 288, 318, 323, 335, 372, 382, 392, 393; when named, 397; miasion at, 1669, described in 1670, 406; council at, in 1671, 408; Sioux killed at, 408; visited by Tonty, 409; visited by La Salle, 409; Ojibways at, executed, 414; visited by Lahontan, 416; abandoned, 417; Ojibways in 1736 there, 427; attempt to raise wheat at, 436, 437; Repentigny at, 435; Lt. Turner, U.S. Navy, at, 460
Saut du Gaston, when named, 397, 400
Sayer, John, trader N.W. Co., 115, 451
Schoolcraft, H.R., 26, 30, 35, 52, 56, 87, 248, 251, 257, 448, 467, 471, 475, 478, 484
Schoolcraft, Mrs., 255
Scolding wives (Ojibway), 338, 355
Sea of the West, trading district, 422, 429
Secret societies, totemic, 42
Selkirk's settlement, 70, 356
Seminole war, 136
Semple, Governor of Selkirk's colony, 381, 481
Senecas, the, 42
Shadawish (Bad Pelican), Ojibway chief, 192, 317, 318
Shakopee, Minn., 156
Shakopee, battle of, 502
Shagawaumikong. See Chagouamigon.
Shappa (Beaver), Yancton chief, 358, 359, 362, 363, 364
Shawakeshig, Ojibway warrior, 50, 362, 363
Shawanos. See Shawnees.
Shawano prophet. See Prophet.
Shawnees, the, 32, 218
Shawunoag. See Shawanos.
Shaug-un-ush, or British, 195
Shell River, 164
She-se-be, Ojibway warrior, 346, 352
Shin-ga-ba-wos-sin, Ojibway chief, 47, 319, 392, 445, 462, 470
Shin-goob, or "Balsam," 50, 130
Shing-wauk, or Little Pine, 462
Shoneyah, or "Silver," Ojibway chief, 165, 335
Shokpedan, or Shakopee, Dakota chief, 156
Shosh-e-man, or "Snow Glider," Ojibway chief, 334
Sibley Lake, 224
Silver crosses sold by traders, 439
Sioux. See Dakotas.
Sissetons, the, 168, 266, 352, 304, 359
Six Nations of New York, 30, 83, 146, 148, 217
Smallpox, how introduced among Ojibways, 260, 261, 344
Smith, Capt. John, 30
Snake River, 243, 246
Snelling, Col., U.S.A., 474
Snelling, H.H., 475
Snelling, W.J., 476
Snelling, Fort, 474, 476, 485
Solomons, Ezekiel, British trader, 209
Song-uk-um-ig, or "Strong Ground," Ojibway chief, 47, 353, 354, 470
Spiritualism among Ojibways, 27
Spontaneous Man, Ojibway name for themselves, 56
Strong Ground. See Song-uk-um-ig.
Stillwater, Minn., 11; Indian fight at, 489; scalp dance at, 499
Stirling, General, 444
Stuart, Robert, 494
Sturgeon, 175
Sucre, le (Sweet), Ojibway chief, 231, 376, 452, 454, 458, 459
Sugar trees, 175, 263
Suk-a-aug-un-ing, 315
Summer life among red race, 251, 264
Sunrise River, 327, 328
Sunrise River, battle on, 328
Swamp People, or "Swampies." See Musk-keeg-oes.
Sweet. See Sucre, le.
Swan River, 384
Swearing unknown in Ojibway tongue, 64
Symbol, family, 42

Tabushaw, Ojibway warrior, 355
Taliaferro, Major, agent for Sioux, 465, 474, 476, 483
Talon, intendant, 99
Tartaric origin of Dakotas, 62
Taupine, Sieur de la, 408
Tecumseh, 118, 324, 372
Tennessee River, 32
Tepees, or wigwams, 158
Ticonderoga, Ojibways at, 432
Theology of the Ojibways, 27. See also Medawe.
Thief River, 326, 356
Thompson, D., astronomer and geographer of Northwest Company, explores the Red River of the north, 151; visits Red Lake, 451
Thunder Bay, 84
Tobacco raised by Gros Ventres, 179
Tom, a negro engagé, 289
Tongue River, fight at, 454
Tonty, Henry, 409, 415
Torture of prisoners, 82, 106, 107, 128, 188
Totemic system, 34; analogous to Hebrew customs, 70
Totemic division of Ojibways, 41
Totems. See Crane, Bear, etc.
Totems, members cannot intermarry, 42; the five original, 43, 44; system not known among Dakotas, 43, 61; list of the present, 44; the fish species, 46; intermingling of, 165
Tracy, Mr., British trader, 205, 208
Trader, a, robbed by pillagers, 258
Trading post, first, on La Pointe Island, 96
Tradition of the Totems, 43; how the Mooses were exterminated, 50; of deluge, 55, 56; of how Great Spirit created man, 58; of a great pestilence, 67; of events similar to Joseph and his brethren, 70; of the Megis (sacred sea shell), 78; of the sand bank at the mouth of St. Louis River, 81; of the murder of an Omushkas, 84; of the Munduas, 91; of Manabosho creating a bar on the lake, 102; about the coming of the whites, 118; of the Odugamee invasion, 149; of the taking of Mille Lacs, 157
Treaty (1787), Fort Harmar, 32; with Ojibways, 1820, at Sault Ste. Marie, 462; in 1825, at Prairie du Chien, 47, 317, 468; in 1826, at Fond du Lac, 392, 470; in 1837, at Fort Snelling, 485; in 1842, at La Pointe, 494; in 1847, at Fond du Lac, 14, 497; in 1854, 502; in 1855, at Washington, 502; in March, 1863, 504; in Oct. 1863, 506; in May, 1864, 506; in April, 1866, 506
Trial of Alfred Aitkin's murderer, 485
Trout Lake, 192
Trumbull, J. Hammond, on Indian names, 397
Tug-waug-aun-ay, Ojibway chief, 87, 89, 90, 192
Turner, Lt., U.S.N., at Sault Saint Marie, 460
Turtle Portage, 192
Two Rivers, Minn., 14, 17, 18

Uk-ke-waus, Ojibwav warrior, 337, 343
Urau, Mrs. Madeline, 20
Utica, N.Y., 12
Utrecht, treaty of, 422

Varennes, Pierre Gualtier de, 427
Verendrye (or Veranderie) Sieur, 98, 426, 427; son killed by Sioux, 428; sons reach Rocky Mountains, 427; map of, 428
Verplank, Hon. I., 14, 497
Vermont, 384
Vieux Desert, 38
Vincennes, 372
Virginia, early colonists of, 30

Wabash River, 33
Wabasha, Dakota chief, 156, 219, 220, 248
Wabasha village, 303
Wabishkeepeenas, or White Pigeon, 471
Wab-ud-ow, or "White Gore" Lake, 224
Wadden, trader, murdered, 378, 381
Walker, Ojibway agent, 503, 504
Wa-me-gis-u-go, Ojibway hunter, 129
Wampum, 48
Wa-na-ta, a Dakota chief, 359, 363, 364
Wa-path-a, or "Wabasha," which see
War, revolutionary, 9
War of 1812, 368, 372, 387, 459
War dance, 166
Warfare, Indian, how conducted, 249
War pipe, keepers of, 49, 68
War, much stimulated by mourning customs, 264
War parties, how raised, 338
Warpetons, the, 266, 270, 272, 304, 352, 359
Warren, Abraham, ancestor of W.W. Warren, 9
Warren, Charlotte, 12, 18
Warren, Gen. Joseph, 9
Warren, Julia, 12
Warren, Lvman (grandfather of W.W.), 9, 12
Warren, Lyman M. (father of W.W.), birth, 9; becomes trader, 10; marries, 11; farmer at Chippewa River, 12; his library, 12; other references, 326, 383, 384, 450, 464; death, 12
Warren, Mrs. Lyman M., 11, 12
Warren, Miss Mary, 12, 20
Warren, Richard (ancestor of W.W.), 9
Warren, Sophia, 12
Warren, Stephen (ancestor of W.W.), 9
Warren, Truman A. (uncle of W.W.), 9, 10, 326, 384, 391, 450, 464
Warren, Truman A., Jr., 12, 20
Warren, William W., memoir of, 9; birth, 12; education, 26; learns
Ojibway, 12, 25; becomes interpreter, 13, 14; comes to Minnesota, 14; marries, 14; his familiarity with Ojibwa legends, 15, 17; collects historical facts from the Indians, 15, 17, 19, 25; begins to write book, 10; his moral qualities, 16; elected to legislature, 15; death of, 18; eulogies on, 19; his children, 20; other works projected by him, 26, 27
Warren, Wm. Tyler, 20
Washington, D. C, 392
Washington, George, 433, 444
Wash-kin-e-ka, or "Crooked Arm," 363
Wa-son-ou-e-qua, or "Yellow Hair," Ojibway chief, 269
Wash-ta-do-ga-waub, Ojibway chief, 364
Watab River, 352
Watrous, Hon. John S., 14
Waub-ash-aw, Ojibway warrior, 330
Waub-o-jeeg, or "White Fisher," Ojibway chief, 52, 232, 235, 242, 246, 248, 253, 266, 351, 352, 394, 438, 447
Waub-ish-aahe, Marten totem, 50
Waub-ij-e-jauk, or "White Crane," 11, 48, 317, 321
Waub-ish-gang-aug-e, or "White Crow," 47, 192, 319
Waub-un-uk-eeg, or Delawares, 32
Waukouta, 156
Wausekogubig, or "Bright Forehead," 223, 227
Wa-wa-tam, saves Henry's life, 204, 206, 213, 214
Wa-won-ge-quon, Ojibway chief, 180, 289, 356
We-esh-coob, or Sweet. See Sucre, le.
We-esh-dam-o, Ojibway chief, 47
We-kauns, or initiating priests, 77
Wen-ni-way, Ojibway chief, 206
We-non-ga, or "The Vulture," 342
We-qua-dang (Ance-ke-we-naw), 38
Wheelock, President of Dartmouth College, 443
Whipple, Mercy (grandmother of W.W. Warren), 9
Whiskey, among Indians, 31, 120, 301
White Crane. See Waub-ij-e-jauk.
White Earth Reservation, 12, 16, 20
White fish, 175, 186
White Fish Lake, 224
White Fisher. See Waubojeeg.
Whites, intercourse with, 101, 108, 113, 125
Whites, Ojibways first discovered by, 117, 118
Whites, first visit to La Pointe, 121
Whitesborough, New York, 12
Wigwams, how built, 40, 98, 100, 157, 160, 254
Williams, J. Fletcher, Memoir of W.W. Warren, 7
Willow River, 329
Winnebago Lake, 33
Winnebago agency at Long Prairie, 266, 353
Winnebagoes, 3, 14, 30, 32, 43, 47, 193, 247. 314, 352, 354
Winnebagoes, borrow totemic system from Ojibways, 43
Winnepegosish Lakes, 224
Winnepeg Lake, 38, 98, 175, 178, 183, 185, 281, 288, 326
Wisconsin, 32, 37, 190, 292, 386
Wisconsin Historical Collections, quoted, 145
Wisconsin River, 3, 38, 39, 126, 149, 190, 191, 192, 242, 243, 299, 317, 320, 356
Wiscoup, Weeshcoob. See Sucre, le.
Wolf's Father, Ojibway chief, 319, 320
Wolf totem, or clan, 45, 49, 165, 335
Wolfe, General, 195, 437
Women, Ojibway, their labors, 265
Wood, Wm. H., 19
Wyandots, the, 30, 124, 146

Yankton Dakotas, 138, 139, 168, 356
Yellow Hair, legend of, 269, 274
Yellow Hair, Ojibway Chief, 310, 311, 312, 319, 320
Yellow Lake, 171, 172, 326, 335

X.Y. Fur Company, 380

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