INDEX
639
- Moccason, Indian the, a superior foot-gear for sylvan and frontier life, 169; its materials and construction, 169, 170.
- Moravian Missions, 475.
- Morgan, Lewis H., a valuable writer on aboriginal life, 87.
- Mound Builders, the, subjects of much ingenious speculation, 92; Loskiel quoted upon, 92.
N.
- Natick, Indian Town, 437.
- Nature, Indian accordance with, 145.
- Navidad, site of the first colony established in the New World by Columbus, 43; its tragic fate, 44, 45.
- New Testament, Eliot's Indian, 455.
- Nicolet, Sieur the, first Frenchman to reach the Mississippi from the north, 86.
- Nomads, land-rights of, 223, 224.
- Noue, Father, 403.
- Nunez, Vasco, first European discoverer of the Pacific, and the first to launch European keels upon its waters, 58, 59.
O.
- Ovando, Nicholas de, cruel and treacherous conduct of, toward the natives at Hispaniola, 48.
P.
- Palfrey, John G., his low estimate of the Indian, as compared with the opposite of Governor Arnold, 114, 115.
- Pappooses, Indian, their training, 205.
- Parkman, Francis, great value of his historical writings, 259-263.
- Parliament, the English, discussion in, on the employment of the Indians against us in the war of the Revolution, 500, 502.
- Pemmican, an invention of the Indians found valuable to white men, 178.
- Penn, William, his pacific policy with the Indians, abandoned by his successors, 218, 357; his interview with Charles II., 227.
- Pequot war, the, 341, 342.
- Philip, Indian king, his scorn of civilization and Christianity, 331; ground of his complaint against the whites, 331, 332; his war with the N. E. colonists, 338, — the right and wrong of it, 339, 340, — its relation to the "Praying Indians" in Mass., 4G0-465.
- Pilgrims, the, first Europeans who came to the New World designing permanent settlement, 10; take root in Massachusetts and Connecticut, 16; receive instructions from the Indians in the cultivation of corn, and in the use of alewives as a fertilizer, 175; their treaty alliances with different tribes, 221.
- Pontiac, leader of the Indian conspiracy against the English in the West, 318; ablest and bravest of the great Indian chieftains, 321; his characteristics and plans, 322-324; his death by treachery, 325.
- Pony, the Indian, 203.
- "Praying Indians," the, their doings and sufferings in King Philip's War, 460-465 ; what finally befell them, 465, 466.
- Protestant missions, the, among the Indians, less successful than the Roman Catholic, 80; aims and methods of the two quite different, 80-83, 369, 377; delay in the beginning of, 421; action of the Mass. General Court concerning, 422, 423; continuation of them to the present time, 475, 476.
- Pueblo Indians, the, 139.
- Puritans, the, their estimate and treatment of the Indian, 116, 420; their method of conversion different from that of the Jesuit, 297, 300; opinions of some individual, concerning the Indians, 336, 342; their reverence for the whole Bible, 453; severity of their discipline with the Indians, 469, 470.
