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Above Persons, 259.
Adoption of captives, 254.
Adultery, penalty for, 220.
Adventure, Stories of, 1.
Adventures of Bull Turns Round, 24.
Affirmation, solemn form of, 188.
Ah-kaik´-sum-iks, 209.
Ah-kai-yi-ko-ka´-kin-iks, 209.
Ah-kai´-po-kaks, 209.
Ah-kwo´-nis-tsists, 209,
Ahk-o´-tash-iks, 209.
Ahk-sa´-ke-wah, 163.
Ah´pai-tup-iks, 209.
Ai-sik´-stŭk-iks, 209.
Aī-sin´-o-ko-ki, 35.
Ai´-so yim-stan, 260.
Alcohol, agent of destruction, 287.
Algonquin myth, 271.
Algonquin tribes, xv.
All-are-his-children, xv.
All Comrades, 219 et seq.
All Crazy Dogs, 221.
Allen, Major, 290.
All-face man, 276.
Almost-a-Dog, xiv.
Amelanchier alnifolia, 203.
American Anthropologist, 177.
American Hero Myths, 256.
Ancient customs dying out, 277.
Ancient Times, Stories of, 91.
Animals, birth of, 271,
creation of, 138.
Animal powers, 260.
Animal powers and signs, 261.
Antelope, method of taking, 236.
song, 280.
where created, 138.
Anthropologist, American, 177.
A´pi, 256.
Ap´-i-kai-yiks, 209.
Ap´i-kunni, 117 et seq.
Ap-ut´-o-si-kai-nah, 209.
Armells Creek, 61.
Arrows, 200.
Assinaboines (tribe), 82, 179, 207.
A´-tsi-tsi, 82.
Authority of "sits beside him" woman, 217.
A-wah-heh´, 87.
Back fat (of buffalo), 34, 206.
Creek, 13.
Bad Weapons, The, 157.
Bad Wife, The, 39.
Badger, 96.
Bags, 203.
Battle near Cypress Mountains, 245
Bears, The, 149.
Beaver, how taken, 241.
Creek, 201.
Indians, 177.
Medicine, The, 117.
song, 121.
Belly River, 71.
Buttes, 73.
Berries created, 137.
Berry of the red willow, 204.
Big Eagle, 249.
Big Nose, xv.
Bighorn, where created, 138.
Birch tree, 273.
Bird, Thomas, 276.
Birds created, 237.
Birth of the animals, 271.
Biters, 209.
Bitter-root, 204.
Black Elks (Blackfoot gens), 208.
(Blood gens), 209.
Blackfeet, 13 et seq., 71, 82, 277.
as known to the whites, 179.
Blackfoot, xi, xiii, 15.
cosmology, 271.
country, boundaries of, 143.
Crossing, 85.
Genesis, The, 237.
in War, The, 242.
Black Patched Moccasins, 209, 225.
Boiling meat, 205.
Bow River, 143.
Bowls of stone, 202.
Bows, 299.
Box Elder Creek, 232.
Boys, advice to, 289.
Brave (band of the I-kun-uh´-kah-tsi), 286.
Bravery held in high esteem, 245.
proofs of required, 249.
Braves, duties of, 222.
Braves´ society, 221 et seq., 225.
Brinton, Dr., 258.
Brush created, 137.
Buckets, 201.
Buffalo, 25 et seq., 227 et seq.
bringing to camp, 232 et seq.
corral of Cheyennes, 231.
created, 142.
driven over cliffs, 232.
eating the people, 140.
hunting disguised, 235.
hidden, 29 et seq.
slaughter, modern, 235.
value of to the people, 227.
surrounding, 234.
Buffalo Lip Butte, 274.
what it is, 126.
Buffalo song, 280.
Bull bats, 166.
Bull berries, 203.
Bulls, 221 et seq.
Bulls’ society, 93, 104 et seq.
Bunch of lodges, 89.
Burial, 193.
Buttes created, 237.
Camas, 137 et seq.
root, how prepared, 204.
Camp arranged in circle, 224.
Camp, order of moving, 225.
Canadian mounted police, 289.
Casey, Lieutenant, xiii.
Catchers, 221.
Cattle issued, 297.
Centre post of Medicine Lodge, 265.
Ceremony of Medicine Lodge, 263 et seq.
of unwrapping pipe-stem, 279 et seq.
buffalo corral of, 231.
Chickadee, 162.
Chief, 219.
Children in lodge, 189.
training of, 188.
Chippeways, 244.
Chippeweyans, 177.
Chinook winds, 226.
Choke-cherries, how prepared, 203.
Clark (W. P.), 244.
Clay images, of buffalo, 142.
in human shape, 138.
Clot of blood, 31.
Clothing, 196.
made of buffalo hide, 227.
Cold Maker, 260.
Confederation of three tribes, 208.
Corral of Cheyennes, buffalo, 231.
Cosmology, Blackfoot, 271.
Counting coup, 245 et seq.
coup at Medicine Lodge, 265, 267.
Country of the Blackfoot, 278.
Coup, 191 et seq.
among Blackfeet, 248.
different tribes, 245.
counting, in early times, 117.
"Covering" the slain, 253.
Cowardice, penalty for, 220.
Coyotes, how taken, 240.
Creation, 238 et seq.
Creator, 256.
Cree (tribe), 82 et seq., 279, 207.
Crimes to be punished, 220.
Crops in Blackfoot country, 296.
Custer, General, xiv.
Customs, ancient, dying out, 277.
Customs, Daily Life and, 281.
Cut Bank River, 294.
Cutting rawhide for Medicine Lodge, 265.
Cypress Mountains, 245.
Daily Life and Customs, 282.
Dance, medicine pipe, 281.
young women's, 117.
Dawson, Mrs. Thomas, xiv.
Dead return to life, 230.
Death, origin of, 139.
Deer, how taken, 240.
Deer Lodge, 293.
Diet, 203.
Disease, 281.
Diseases introduced by whites, 287.
Divorce, 228.
Doctors, 283.
Dog and the Stick, The, 145.
Dogs beasts of burden, 186 et seq.
killed at grave, 194.
not eaten, 207.
Dogs Naked, 208.
Don't Laugh band, 223.
Double Runner, vii, xv, 223.
Doves, 225.
Dream helper, 18 et seq.
originates war party, 250.
person, 19 et seq.
Dreaming for power, 191 et seq.
belief in, 263.
Dress, 196.
Dried meat, 205.
Dwelling, 198.
Duties of first wife, 217.
Eagle catching, 236.
songs, 239.
lodge, 240.
Early Finished Eating, 209, 225.
Riser, 99.
wars bloodless, 242.
Ear-rings, 297.
Eggs of waterfowl, how cooked, 207.
Ē-ĭn´-a-ke, 221.
E-kus´-kini, 84 et seq., 132 et seq.
Elbow river, 143.
Elk, how taken, 240.
The, 158.
tushes, 197.
Elkhorn arrow, 115.
Elk River, 4.
Elopement, 215.
E´-mi-tah pahk-sai-yiks, 208.
E´-mi-taks, 221.
Esk´-sin-ai-tŭp-iks, 209.
Esk´-sin-i-tŭppiks, 131.
Ĕts-kāi´-nah, 221.
Everyday life, 181 et seq.
Family names, 210.
Fast of Medicine Lodge woman, 265.
Fast Runners, The, 81.
Feast, invitations to, 109.
Feasting in the camps, 282.
Fighting between Bloods and Piegans, 208.
Fire, how obtained, 200.
carried, 202.
First killing in war, 121.
mauls, 143.
medicine pipe, 116.
people, 139.
pis´kun, 142.
scalping, 122.
shelter to sleep under, 142.
stone knives, 142.
Fish, 207.
hooks, 203.
Fish spears, 203.
Flat Bows, 208.
Flatheads, 179.
Flesh of animals eaten, 205.
Fleshers, how made, 200.
Flint and steel, 200.
Folk-lore, xv.
Food of war party, 251.
Fort Conrad, 262.
Pitt, 83.
Union, 287.
Four Bears, xiv, 262.
Fox, The, 169.
Fox-eye, 61 et seq.
Frogs, 207.
Fungus for punk, 201.
Fur animals, how caught, 240.
Gambling, 183 et seq.
Game, hidden, 145.
in Blackfoot country, 226.
Game played by prairie dogs, 171.
Genesis, The Blackfoot, 137.
Gentes of the Blackfeet, 208.
Bloods, 209.
Kai´nah, 209.
Sik ´si-kau, 208.
now extinct, 224.
Ghost, 72.
bear, 75.
country, 128.
Woman, Heavy Collar and The, 70.
Ghosts’ Buffalo, The, 132.
Ghosts, camp of the, 128.
Girls, carefully guarded, 216.
instructed, 190.
outfit for marriage, 212, 214.
Girl stolen, 215.
Gown of women, 196.
Grasshoppers, 207.
Grease on red willow bark, 156.
Great Bear (constellation), 66, 111.
Falls, 63.
Grooved arrow shafts, zoo.
Ground Man, 259 et seq.
Ground Man (of Cheyennes), 260.
Ground Persons, 259.
Hair, care of, 197.
mode of wearing, 197,
Handles of knives, 200.
"Hands," 184.
Hats of antelope skin, 241.
Head chief, how chosen, 219.
Heavy Collar, 70 et seq.
and the Ghost Woman, 70.
Runner, xv.
Help from animals, 141.
Hill where Old Man sleeps, 143.
Horned toad, 276.
Horns, 221.
Horses cause of war, 242.
killed at grave, 193.
How the Blackfoot lived, 196.
Hunting, 226 et seq.
alone punished, 220.
Husband's personal rights in wife, 217.
power over wife, 216.
property rights in wife, 217.
I-kun-uh´-kah-tsi, 69, 80, 93, 104, 186, 219, et seq.
origin of, 104 et seq.
Implements of the dead, 132 et seq.
made of buffalo hide, 227.
Indian a man, xii.
sign language, 244.
Indians and their Stories, ix.
Beaver, 177.
general ignorance about, x.
Infants lost, 187.
I-nis´-kim, 125 et seq., 133 et seq., 229.
In-uhk´-so-yi-stam-iks, 209.
I-nuk-si´-kah-ko-pwa-iks, 209.
I-nuks´-iks, 209.
Invitation to feasts, 109.
I´pok-si-maiks, 209.
I-sis´-o-kas-im-iks, 209.
I-so-kin´-uh-kin, 284.
Is´-sui, 221.
Is-ti´-kai-nah, 209.
"It fell on them" creek, 61.
It-se´-wah, 183.
Kah´-mi-taiks, 209.
Kai´-nah, vii, 208 et seq.
Kalispels, 204.
Kettles of stone, 202.
Kipp, Joseph, 249.
Kit-fox, 111.
Kit-fox (society), 93.
Ki´-yis, 209.
Knats-o-mi´-ta, 221.
Knives of stone, 200.
Kom-in´-a-kus, 88.
Ksik-si-num´, 256.
Kuk-kuiks´, 221.
Kut´-ai-ĭm-iks, 209.
Kut-ai-sot´-si-man, 209.
Kutenais, 179.
Kut-o´-yis, 29 et seq.
Ladles of horn, 203.
of wood, 202.
Lari pūk´ūs, 223.
Lesser Slave Lake, 177.
L’herbe, 183.
Liars, 208.
Life among the Blackfeet, xiii.
Little Blackfoot, vii.
"Little Slaves," 218.
Lizards, 207.
Lodge for dreaming, 192.
of stone, 114.
Lodges, ancient, 187.
how made, 198 et seq.
decoration of, 199.
of chiefs of the I-kun-uh´-kah-tsi, 224.
Medicine Person, xv.
Long Tail Lodge Poles, 209.
Lost Woman, The, 13.
Mad Wolf, vii.
Maker, the, 138.
Mandans, 287.
Man-eater, 37.
Many Children, 209.
Lodge Poles, 209.
Horses, 209.
March of the camp, 186.
of war party, 251.
Marriage, girl's outfit for, 212, 214.
how arranged, 211.
of important people, 211.
poorer people, 214.
prerequisites for, 21I.
prohibited within gens, 211.
Ma-stoh´ pah-ta-kiks, 110, 221.
Material advancement, 298.
Mats, 204.
Mauls, 163.
how made, 200.
Measles, 287.
Medicine leggings, 167.
Medicine Lodge, the, xiv, 190 et seq., 219, 260 et seq., 263 et seq.
Pipes and Healing, 276.
rock of the Marias, 262.
woman, 190 et seq.
Mexico, 255.
Mi-ah-wah´-pit-siks, 209.
Mi-aw´-kin-ai-yiks, 209.
Mik-a´pi, 61 et seq.
Miles, General, xiv.
Missouri River, 41.
Mis-tai´, 273.
Moccasins, 196.
Mo-kŭm´-iks, 210.
Monroe, Hugh, xiv, 235, 241, 255.
John, xiv, 238.
Morning Star, 99.
Mother-in-law, meeting, 195.
not to be spoken to, 195.
Mo-twai´-naiks, 210.
Mountains created, 137.
chant, 194.
for the dead, 194.
Muddy River, 21.
Murder, penalty for, 220.
Musselshell River, 232.
Na-ahks´, 210.
Nai-ai´, 280.
Name, changing, 194.
unwillingness to speak, 194.
Namp´-ski, 276.
Nat-ōs´, 258 et seq.
Na-wuh´-to-ski, 268.
Necklaces, 197.
New Mexico, 255.
Night red light, 99.
Ni-kis´-ta, 210.
Nimp´-sa, 210.
Ni-namp´-skan, 276 et seq.
Nin´-nah, 276.
Nin´-sta, 210.
Ni´-po-mŭk-i, 162.
Ni-sis´-ah, 210.
Nis-kum´-iks, 271.
Nis-kŭn´, 210.
Nis-tŭm-o´, 210.
Nis-tŭm-o´-kun, 210.
Nit´-ak-os-kit-si pup-iks, 209.
Ni-taw´-yiks, 209.
Nit´-ik-skiks, 209.
Nit-o-kē´-man, 210.
Ni-tot´-o-ke-man, 210.
Ni-tot´-si-ksis-stan-iks, 210.
Nits´-i-san, 277.
Nits-o´-kan, 263.
Ni-tun´, 210.
No-ko´-i, 210.
No´-ma, 210.
North Bloods, 209.
North, Major, 247.
North Saskatchewan River, 177.
Northwest Territories, 289.
Oath, Indian, 188.
Office not hereditary, 219.
Ojibwas, xv.
Ok-wi-tok-so-ka, 202.
and the Lynx, 171.
character of, 257.
disappearance of, 257.
Doctors, 159.
known to other tribes, 257.
makes first weapons, 140.
makes fire sticks, 141.
sleeps, hill where, 143.
Stories of, 135 et seq.
Old Man's predictions, 257.
River, 70.
Sliding Ground, 143.
Origin of the I-kun-uh´-kah-tsi, 104.
medicine pipe, 113.
worm pipe, 127.
Orpheus and Eurydice, xv.
Other game, 240.
Owl Bear, 3.
Owls ghosts of medicine men, 275.
Owner's seat in lodge, 199.
Paints, 203.
Parfieche soles of moccasins, 196.
Past and the Present, The, 177.
Pawnee coups, 247 et seq.
Hero Stories and Folk Tales, xi, 81, 234.
Peace with Gros Ventres broken, 244.
the Snakes, The, 3.
Penalty for adultery, 220.
for cowardice, 220.
for murder, 220.
for theft, 220.
for treachery, 220.
Penances, 259,
Pend d’Oreille, 63.
People created, 138 et seq.
Phrynosoma, 276.
Physical characteristics, 197.
Pictographs of coups, 249.
Pi-kŭn´i, vii, xiii, 61, 68, 177, 209, 225.
Pi-nŭt-u´-ye is-tsim´-o-kan, vii.
Pipe dance, medicine, 278 et seq.
of the Soldier Society, 223.
stems, 276 et seq.
Pipes, material of, 188.
Pis´kun, 32 et seq., 57, 228 et seq.
etymology of, 228.
bringing buffalo to, 229.
how constructed, 229.
of the Blackfeet, 230.
of the Crees, 230.
of the Sik´-si-kau, 230.
Pis-tsi-ko´-an, 108.
Places chosen for dreaming, 192.
Plants, medical properties of, 139.
Plunder from the south, 255.
Pomme blanche, 205.
Pottery, 202.
Power, dreaming for, 191.
of herbs, 139.
to bring on storms, 262.
Powers, animal, 260.
Prayers, 263.
in sweat house, 282.
to the Thunder, 278.
Preparations for burial, 193.
for dreaming, 191 et seq.
for the attack, 252.
for war parties, 251.
Presents to husband from father-in-law, 213.
to the sun, 258.
Product of the buffalo, 227.
Property buried with dead, 193.
of Brave Society, 223.
of deceased, disposition of, 218.
Psoralea esculenta, 205.
Puh-ksi-nah´-mah-yiks, 208.
Puk´-sah-tchis, 163.
Punishment for hunting alone, 220.
for infidelity, 216.
for stealing tobacco, 271.
Punk, 201.
Pūn´-o-tsĭ-hyo, 260.
Purification by smoke, 279.
Quarrels between the three tribes, 208.
Rabid Wolf, xv.
wolves, 283.
Rabies, cure for, 283.
Race, the, 155.
Raven Band of the I-kŭn-uh´-kah-tsi, 110.
Carriers, 110.
Eagle, xiv.
Old Man, 61 et seq.
River half-breeds, 232.
Religion, 256 et seq.
Belly, 71.
Big, 41.
Bow, 143.
Elbow, 143.
Elk, 4.
Missouri, 41.
Muddy, 21.
North Saskatchewan, 177.
Old Man's, 70.
Peace, 177.
person, 64.
Red Deer's, 85.
Saskatchewan, 70, 83, 177, 178.
St. Mary's, 71.
Roasting meat, 205.
Robes, 197.
Rock, The, 165.
Root-digger, 145.
Ross, Miss Cora M., xiv.
Round, 88.
Running Rabbit, xv.
Russell, William, xiv.
Sacks, 203.
Sacred bundles, where kept, 276.
Sacred objects, 262.
things connected with eagle catching, 238.
Sacrifice, 3.
of war party, 251.
Sai´-yiks, 208.
Sak-si-nah´-mah yiks, 209.
Salt, 207.
Sand Hills, 44 et seq., 62 et seq., 94 et seq., 127 et seq., 132.
Sarcees, 85 et seq.
Sarvis berries, 203.
Berry Creek, 86.
Saskatchewan River, 70, 83, 177, 178.
Saskatoon Creek, 86.
Scarface, 93 et seq.
Schultz, J. W., xiii, xiv, 277, 279, 284.
Scout of war party, 251.
Screech Owl, 82 et seq.
Seats in lodge, 199.
Seeking the Sun's Lodge, 94.
Thunder's Lodge, 113.
Self-torturings in Medicine Lodge, 267.
Servants, 219.
Seven Persons, 66.
Seven Persons Creek, 70.
Shadow, 273.
Shelter for war party, 252.
to sleep under, 142.
Shepherdia argentea, 203.
Short Bows, 209.
Sign language, 6.
Signs, 64.
Signs and powers of animals, 261.
Sik-o-kit-sim-iks, 209.
Sik-opok´-si-maiks, 209.
Siks-ah´-pun-iks, 209.
Siks-in´-o-kaks (Blackfoot), 208.
(Blood), 209.
Sik-ut´-si-pum-aiks, 209.
Sioux, 287.
"Sits beside him" woman, 215, 217.
Skeleton, 71.
Skidi tribe, 249.
Skull taken into eagle pit, 238.
Sleeping for power, 141.
Small Leggings, vii.
Smallpox, 287.
Smell of a person, 129.
Smoking, rules in, 187.
Snakes, 207.
Snakes (tribe), 3 et seq., 13, 19, 43 et seq., 179.
Peace with, The, 3.
Snares, 79.
Social organization, 208.
Societies of the All Comrades, 221 et seq.
Song, antelope, 280.
beaver, 121.
buffalo, 280.
pipe, 281.
war party, 251.
Soul, 273.
Spai´ yu ksah´-ku, 255.
Spanish lands, 255.
Spear heads, 200.
Spears, 200.
Spoons, 202.
of adults, 183 et seq.
Spotted Tail's camp, 248.
St. Mary's River, 71.
Sta-au´, 273.
Starvation winter, 289 et seq.
Stockraising, 297.
Stolen by the Thunder, 113.
Stone bowls, 202.
kettles, 202.
knives, 200.
pointed arrows, 228.
Ston´-i-tăpi, 27.
Stories of Adventure, 1.
of Ancient Times, 91.
of Old Man, 135.
Story of the Three Tribes, The, 175.
Story-telling, 185.
Struck by the Thunder, 113.
Stŭ´miks, 221 et seq.
Suicide among girls, 216.
Sun, 43 et seq., 94 et seq., 258 et seq.
Sun dogs, 64.
Sun River, 35.
Sun's Lodge, seeking the, 94.
Surrounding buffalo, 234.
Sū´ yē-stŭ´-miks, 53.
Su yoh-pah´-wah-ku, 85.
Sweat bath, 282.
Sweat lodge, 26.
houses for Medicine Lodge, 265.
Sweet-grass, 279 et seq.
Sweet Grass Hills, 137.
Swindling the Indians, ix.
Tail-feathers-coming-in-sight-over-the-Hill, 244.
Tails, 221.
Taking horses, 253.
Temperament, 181.
The Bad Weapons, 157.
Bears, 149.
Beaver Medicine, 117.
Blackfoot Genesis, 137.
Blackfoot in War, 242.
Buffalo Rock, 125.
Dog and the Stick, 145.
Elk, 158.
Fox, 169.
Ghosts’ Buffalo, 132.
Past and the Present, 177.
Race, 155.
Rock, 165.
Theft from the Sun, 167.
Wonderful Bird, ´53.
Theft from the Sun, The, 167.
penalty for, 220.
Things sacred to the Sun, 258.
Three Tribes, The Story of, 175.
bird, 82.
described, 259.
steals women, 113.
Tobacco, Indians’, 268.
songs, 270.
Tobacco thief punished, 271.
Tongues for Medicine Lodge, 264.
Touchwood Hills, 201.
Training of children, 188.
Transmigration of souls, 275.
Trapping wolves, 79.
Treachery, penalty for, 220.
Treatment of dead enemies, 254.
of women, 216.
Trial by jumping, 161.
Trivett, Rev. S., 276.
Tsin-ik-tsis´-tso-yiks, 209.
Tsĭ-stīks´, 221.
Tŭis-kis´tīks, 221.
Turtles, 207.
Two Medicine (Lodge Creek), vii, 29, 33.
War Trails, 82.
Persons, 259.
Uses of buffalo products, 227.
Version of the origin of death, 272.
Visitor's seat in lodge, 199.
War bonnet, 82.
bonnet of Bulls Society, 223.
clubs, how made, 200.
head-dress, 82.
journeys, duration of, 254.
journeys to the southwest, 255.
lodges, 3.
lodges, how built, 252.
systematized, 243.
with the Gros Ventres, 245.
War parties, 3 et seq., 39, 83, 251.
Warrior's outfit, contributions to, 250.
Whiskey trading, 288.
White beaver, 119.
Widows, 218.
Wife, standing of, 216 et seq.
duties of first, 217.
The Bad, 39.
Wind Maker, 259.
Sucker, 35.
Tail, xv, 24 et seq., 120 et seq.
Man, The, 78 et seq.
Road, 102.
song, 261.
Wolverine, 97.
Wolves, 240.
Wolves, rabid, 283.
Woman doctors, 286.
Woman, standing of, 216.
Woman's dress, 196.
seat in lodge, 199.
Wonderful Bird, The, 153.
Wood for bows, 199.
Woods Bloods, 209.
Pipe, 127 et seq.
Worms, 207.
Yellowstone River, 4.
women's dance, 117.
Younger sisters potential wives, 217.