atrocious cruelty towards the Indians, 65, 66; their unconscious irreverence in coupling acts of torture and slaughter with sacred rites and names, 66, 67; their other motives besides rapacity and fanaticism, 76; Humboldt's judgment of them, 76; first of Europeans to come into contact with the natives on the Pacific coast, 79, 80; their missions in California, 80, 83, 84; their murderous destruction of the Huguenot colony in Florida, 272, 273.
- Squaw-man, a, 580.
- Squaws, Indian, as workers, 576.
- "Suderie," the (sweat-box, or vapor bath), a great Indian cure for fevers, etc., 132, 133.
- Sullivan, General, his chastisement of the "Six Nations" in obedience to Washington's instructions, 505.
- Superstitions, Indian, 191.
T.
- Tecumseh, his conspiracy against the U. S. Government, 529; endeavors to form a confederacy of the Western tribes, 530; his argument with General Harrison, 530; his opinion of civilization, 619.
- Torture, Indian practice of, 123.
- Treaties with the Indians, our, unwise policy and mischievous nature of, 536-543; occasion and manner of their violation, 544, 545, 547, 549.
U.
- United States, the, area and acreage of, 207; present Indian population in, 207; number of square miles in, settled, and number of acres of public land, 208; number and nature of its government treaties with the Indians, 208, 209; security of the Government's land-titles given to Indians, 209, 210; our own title to the continent, how it was obtained, 210-212; amount of supplies we furnish to the Indians, 247, 522; unfortunate nature of our covenants with them, 251; the Government's theoretical
acknowledgment but practical denial of the land-tenure of the Indians, 254, 265, — inconsistent action of, in this respect, 257, 258; the nation's endeavor in the Revolutionary War to secure the Indians as neutrals or allies, 497, 498, 501, 502, 504, — embarrassed in its relations with the Indians by the action of England, 505, 507, 509, 518; our Government's early concern for its aborigines, 514, — Congressional action concerning, 515, 527; the prevailing opinion that our Government has been inhuman and perfidious toward the Indians, 516, — remarks upon the justice of that opinion, 51G-518, — three difficulties embarrassing our Government in this matter, 518, 519; sum of benefits bestowed by the nation on the red men, 521-523; the Government's peace-medals to chiefs, 523, 524, — its receptions of Indian delegations, 524, 525; the three leading designs of the Government as to the red men, 525, 526, — its good intentions thwarted, 533-535, — reason for this pointed out, 530 et seq.; three mistakes which our Government has made in dealing with the Indians, 551, 552, — its Indian Bureau and Peace Commissioners, 559, 560, — its peace and war policy in treating with the red men, wisdom and unwisdom of each considered, 561-566; basis of the actual relation of our Government to the Indians, 567, — its enormous expense to support them, 569-571, — its right and duty to use proper compulsory measures towards, 572-577, 582, 584; danger menacing our Government from the Indians gathering on the northwest border and forming alliance with English power, 574, 575: necessity that we should disarm them, 583.
