Fort Harrison built, 357; defence of, 367–369. | Green-corn dance, 379, 381.

Fort William Henry attacked, 245; captured, Heald, Captain, surrenders Fort Dearborn,
223-225.

France, Indian policy of, 207, 208, 263.
Franklin, Dr., counsels Braddock, 212.
French and Indian wars, 179–287.
Frontenac, Count de, attacks the Iroquois,
141, 142; strikes the English settlements,
142, 182, 187.

Frye, Chaplain, killed at Lovewell's fight,
202.

GAGE, Colonel Thomas, at Braddock's defeat,
213.

Gaines, General E. P., in Seminole War, 411.
Gallup's, Captain John, sea-fight with In-
dians, 116.

366.

Heaton, Isaac, bravery of, 387.

Helm, Mrs., capture of, 366.
Hendrick, Mohawk sachem, 216; killed at
Bloody Brook, 218.

Henry, Alexander, narrative of, 279–282.
Herkimer, General Nicholas, at Oriskany,
296.

Hertel de Rouville, burns Salmon Falls, 186;
captures Fort Loyal, 186; destroys Deer-
field, 194.

Hobbomuk, Massachusetts sachem, 112-115.
Hobbs's, Captain, fight near Number Four,
206.

Hochelaga (Montreal) described, 55.

Gansevoort, Colonel Peter, defends Fort Stan- Holartoochee, Seminole chief, 410, 423.
wix, 294.

Gardner, Captain Lion, at Saybrook, 117.
Gates, Captain Horatio, at Braddock's defeat,
212.

Gibbons, Colonel John, attacks the Nez Per-
cés, 466.

Girty, Simon, at Bryant's Station, 327; at
Blue Licks, 328-334; rescues Kenton, 332.
Gladwyn, Major Henry, defends Detroit, 267-
273.

"Gladwyn," the, schooner, heroic defence
of, 273, 274.

Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, 68.

Gosnold, Captain, lands at Cape Cod, 67.
Granganameo, a Virginia sachem, 84.
Grant, Colonel James, subdues the Chero-
kees, 175, 176.

Grant, Major, defeated at Fort Duquesne, 225.
Great Sun, chief of the Natchez tribe, 165.

Hon Yost, stratagem of, 298.

Hooker, Jim, Modoc chief, executed, 463.
Hopehood, Kennebec chief, 163.
Houston, General Samuel, at the battle of
Tohopeka, 394.

Howard, General O. O., campaign against the
Nez Percés, 463–467.
Hubbel, Captain William, repels attack on
his boat, 340-342.

Hudson, Henry, explores New York harbor,
69.

Hull, General William, surrenders Detroit,
361-364.

Hump, Cheyenne chief, surrenders, 448.
Hunt, Captain Thomas, kidnaps Indians, 48.
Hurons attack the Iroquois, 136.

IBERVILLE lands a French colony in Louisi
ana, 160, 190.

Indian confederacy of the North-west, 338.
Indian Territory, 14, 18.
Indian tribes: Abenakis, 160-194; Algonkins,
17, 132-142; Athabascas, 17; California, 77,
78; Caughnawagas, 195; Cherokees, 164,
173-176, 398; Cheyennes, 439; Chickasaws,
61, 164, 168-170; Choctaws, 164, 169, 177;
Comanches, 432; Connecticut, 74, 75; Da-
kotas, 17; Delawares, 78–83; Massachusetts,
106-125; New England, 106-125; New
York, 69-76; Seminoles, 405; Shawnees,
315; Shoshonis, 17.

KENTON, Simon, rescues Boone, 322; advent-
ures of, 331-334.

Kentucky, settlement and Indian wars of,
315-336.

Keyes, Solomon, escape of, 203.
Kieft, Dutch Governor of Manhattan, massa-
cres the Indians, 71.

Kilburn, John, defends his house, 220, 221.
King William's War, 179–193.
Kittanning, a Delaware village, destroyed,
221, 222.

LA BARRE attacks the Senecas and is re-
pulsed, 139.

La Brognerie, French officer, killed at Wells,
189.

La Chine, massacre of, 141.
Lafayette and Red Jacket, 314.
Lake George, battle of, 218, 219.
Lancaster destroyed, 155.

Lane, Ralph, leads a colony to Virginia, 85.
La Salle, 164, 179.

Lathrop, Captain Thomas, defeated at Deer-
field, 152.

Indians: Adoption, ceremony of, 229, 230;
anecdotes of, 18, 19, 30, 31, 125; characteris-
tics, mental and physical, of, 16-18; civil pol-
ity of, 28; cruelly treated by the Spaniards,
62; defrauded by whites, 13, 14, 71; domes-
tic life of, 228-235; dress and food of, 20; |
dwellings of, 20-23; first impressions of the
white men, 47; hunting and trapping, 232,
233; industries and inventions of, 23-26,
30; justice of, 125; kidnapped and sold into
slavery, 48, 49, 68; legends and stories of,
41-46; manners and customs of, 28-40, 66,
77, 94, 128, 165, 176, 228-235, 379-381, 431-Lava beds, 459.
433; newspapers of, 25; picture-writing of,
26-28; religion of, 39, 431; reservations of,
18; stocks or families of, 17; stratagems of,
52, 236; trade of, 71, 97, 264; weapons of, 36.
Iroquois, or Six Nations, attacked by Cham-
plain, 66; tradition of origin, 41; treachery
of, 129, 130; wars with the French, 127-
144; at Albany congress, 210; subdued by
General Sullivan, 310–312.

JACKSON, General Andrew, subdues the
Creeks, 387-389, 394; interview with
Weatherford, 395, 396.

Lenni-Lenape Indians, 78-83.

Le Sueur, M., attacks the Natchez, 167.
Lewis, General Andrew, commands at Point
Pleasant, 291.

Little Big Horn, battle of, 450–454.
Little Crow, Sioux chief, attacks Minnesota

settlers, 426; defeated at Wood Lake, 428.
Little Paul saves Sioux prisoners, 428.
Little Raven, Arapahoe chief, attacks Custer,
440, 444.

Little Turtle, Miami chief, at Harmar's and
St. Clair's defeats, at battle of Fallen Tim-
bers, speech of, sketch of, 343–351.

Jacobs, Captain, Delaware chief, killed at Littleton, Governor William H., seizes Cher-

Kittanning, 221, 222.

Jesup, General Thomas L., seizes Osceola,
409; campaign against the Seminoles, 412-
415.

Johnson boys, capture of, 336.

okee chiefs, 173.

Logan, Colonel Benjamin, 320; Logan's fort
attacked, 319, 320.

Logan, Shawnee chief, his family slaughtered,
290; speech to Lord Dunmore, 292.

Johnson, Colonel James, at the battle of the Loubois, Chevalier de, attacks the Natchez,
Thames, 376, 377.

Johnson, Sir John, at Niagara, 289; at Fort
Stanwix, 295; raid on the Mohawk and
Schoharie valleys, 312.

167.

Lovewell's, Captain John, fight at Pequaw-
ket, 200-203.

Johnson, Colonel Richard M., at the battle of MCARTHUR, Colonel Duncan, at Detroit,

Johnson, Sir William, 215; defeats Dieskau McGillivray, Alexander, Creek chief, 381.

at Lake George, 218, 219.

Joseph, chief of the Nez Percés, 459, 463-467.
Jumper, Seminole chief, 410.

McGirth, Zachariah, recovers his wife and
children, 386, 387.

Mackinac surrendered, 362.

Madokawando destroys York, 188; attacks | Morgan, Daniel, at Braddock's defeat, 212.

Wells, 188.

Maguaga, battle of, 362.

Maine, attempts at colonization of, 68.
Mandans, tradition of origin, 41.

Marin, M., French partisan, attacks Rangers
near Fort Anne, 281; rescues Putnam,
255.

Morgan's fight with two Indians, 324.
Morrell, Mrs. John, heroism of, 340.

Moseley, Captain Samuel, 152, 154; anecdote
of, 156.

Moulton, Colonel, destroys Norridgewock,
200.

Mounds and mound-builders, 15, 16.

Marsh, Captain, defeated at Redwood Ferry, Mount Desert colonized by the French, 66.
Mount Hope, seat of King Philip, 145.

427.
Marshall, Lieutenant-colonel, at battle of Muskokis, or Appalachians, 17.
Wood Lake, 428.

Mason, Captain John, destroys Pequot fort, NADOWAQUA's exploit, 31.

118-120.

Massachusetts Indians, 106-125.

Narraganset, Fort, stormed and destroyed,
153, 154.

Massasoit, Sachem of Wampanoags, 112-116. Narraganset tribe, 112.

Maumee Ford, battle at, 343.

Mauvilla, battle of, 60-61.

Medfield burned, 156.

Narvaez, Pamphilio de, lands in Florida,

57.

Natchez tribe, 62, 164-168.

Medicine," Indian meaning of the word, Nea - Mathla, Seminole chief, repudiates a
432.

Menomonees join Black Hawk, 402.

treaty, 406.

New England Indians, 67, 108-126.

Mercer, Hugh, at Braddock's defeat, 212; at New Mexico explored by Coronado, 64.
Kittanning, 221, 222.

Miantonomo, Narraganset chief, 120-122.
Micanopy, head chief of the Seminoles, 410,
412.

Micasaukie tribe, 405, 406.

Michilimackinac captured, 275–279.
Micmac tribe, 68.

Middleton, Colonel Henry, attacks Cherokees,
175, 176.

New York Indians described by Hudson, 69,

70; massacre of, by Kieft, 72.

New York settled, 70.

Newport, Captain Christopher, colonizes Vir-
ginia, 88-97.

Newtown, battle of, 310-312.

Nez Percé Chief, Joseph, 459; famous retreat
of, 466, 467.

Nez Percé Indians, war with, 463-467.

Miles, Colonel Nelson A., defeats Nez Per- Ninigret, sachem of the Niantics, 159.
cés, 467.

Miller, Lieutenant-colonel James, at Magua-
ga, 362.

Mims, Fort, massacre at, 385, 386.
Minisink destroyed, 309.

Minnevana, Ojibwa chief, speech of, 275, 276.
Minot's, John, house, Dorchester, successfully
defended, 151.

Noble, Colonel Arthur, defeated and slain,
206.

Norridgewock attacked, 200.

Noyau, Chevalier de, attacks the Chickasaws,
169.

Number Four (Charlestown, N. H.) attacked,
203-205.

Mississippi River discovered by De Soto, 62. OCONOSTATA, Cherokee chief, 173.
Mocoso saves the life of Ortiz, 60.

Modoc war, 455–463.

Mohegans attacked by Miantonomo, 121;

join the English, 152.

Monongahela, battle of the, 213, 214.

Octiarche, Creek chief in Florida War, 411.
Oglethorpe, General James, settles Georgia,
170.

Ojibwas (Chippewas), 275.

Okechobee, battle of, 414.

Monro, Colonel, defends Fort William Hen- Oldham, Captain John, murdered, 116.
ry, 223–225.

Montcalm, Marquis de, commands in Cana-
da, 222-225.

Montgomery, Colonel, destroys Cherokee
towns, 174, 175.

Onondaga village destroyed by Frontenac,
143.

Opechanganough, chief of the Pamunkeys,
91, 100, 162-165.
Oriskany, battle of, 296–298.

Moquis tribe of New Mexico, marriage cus- Ortiz, Juan, captivity of, 58.

toms of, 29.

Osage, tradition of origin, 42.

Osceola, 408-410; kills General Thompson, QUEBEC settled, 65.

406; captured, 412.

Oshawahna at the battle of the Thames, 375.
Oyster Bay settlement destroyed, 182.
Oyster River settlement destroyed, 189.

Queen Anne's War, 193-199.

RALEIGH, Sir Walter, 84, 87, 88.
Rasle, Sebastian, death of, 200.
Red Cloud, Sioux chief, 435–439.

PASPAHEGH, encounter of, with Captain Red Jacket, Seneca chief and orator, 314.
Smith, 100.

Paugus, Pequawket chief, killed, 202.

Pavonia, massacre at, 71, 72.

Red Sticks, name given Creek warriors, 397.
Redwood Agency, Minnesota, attacked, 426.
Removal policy, 398.

Peace Commissioners massacred by Modocs, River Raisin massacre, 369, 370.

462, 463.

Pechmo, exploit of, 68.

Peirce, Captain Michael, defeated at Paw-
tucket, 156.

Pemaquid captured, 190.

Rogers, Major Robert, corps of Rangers, 236-
262; Pontiac and Rogers, 265, 266; at Dal-
zell's defeat, 273.

Rolfe, John, marries Pocahontas, 101.
Rosebud, battle of the, 449.

Penn, William, treats with the Delawares, Ross, John, Cherokee chief, 176.
79, 83.

Pequawkets attacked, 201, 202.

Pequot tribe, 112; destroyed by the English,
118-120.

Perier, Governor, conquers the Natchez, 167.
Perry, Captain, defeated by Nez Percés,
466.

Rowlandson, Mary, captivity of, 155, 156.

SAC and Fox tribes, war of the, on the United
States, 398-404.

Saco burned, 160.

St. Castin, Baron de, 191; seized by the Eng-
lish, 199.

Perry, Commodore O. H., victory on Lake St. Clair, General Arthur, defeated, 338-345.
Erie, 373, 374.
St. Francis Indians, village of the, destroyed,
260-262.

Petalashara, daring act of, 18, 19.

Philip, a Pequawket sachem, attacks Wal- St. Leger, Colonel Barry, attacks Fort Stan-
pole, New Hampshire, 219-221.

wix, 294.

Philip's, King, War, 145-163; death of Phil- Salmon Falls village burned, 186.
ip, 158.
Samoset welcomes the English, 109-111.
Philip's, Major, garrison-house attacked, Sassacus, Pequot chief, 118, 120.
160.
Satanta, Kiowa chief, 449, 454.

Pickens, Colonel Andrew, defeats Cherokees, Scalp-dance, 33-35.
314.

Pilaklikaha Swamp, action at, 423, 424.
Plaistowe, Josias, punished for stealing, 146.
Pocahontas, 94, 100-102.

Schenectady destroyed, 182, 183.

Schonchin, Modoc chief, 455; executed, 463.
Schuyler, Major Peter, fight with Valrenne,
187, 188.

Poe brothers' desperate fight with Indians, Scott, General Charles, 343; joins General
334, 335.

Point Pleasant, battle of, 291, 292.

Pokanoket tribe, 145.

Ponce de Leon explores Florida, 56.

Wayne, 347.

Seminoles, war of the, with the United States,
405-425.

"Seven Cities of Cibola," 63.

Pontiac's War, 263-286; treachery of, 267- Sewee tribe, catastrophe of, 177, 178.

Proctor, Colonel Henry, at Frenchtown, 370; Siege of Fort Stanwix, 293–298; Fort Meigs,

defeat at the Thames, 375-378.

Pueblo tribes, 17, 23.

Putnam, Israel, 251-260.

370.

Sioux, 17; wars with United States, 426-454;
in Minnesota, 426-430.

Smith, Colonel James, adventures of, 228- Turner, Captain, killed at the "Falls Fight,"
235.

Smith, Captain John, 88-103; captured by Tuscaloosa, the Black Warrior, at Mauvilla,
the Indians, 91; Smith and Pocahontas,
94-101.

VAN HORNE, Major, defeated at Browns-
town, 362.

Stevens, Captain Phineas, defends Number Vaudreuil subdues the Oneidas, 143.

Stuyvesant, Governor, makes peace with New Villieu and Thury destroy Oyster River

Ticonderoga, scene of the Rangers' exploits, Wells attacked, 188.
246-260.

Tohopeka, or the Horseshoe, battle of, 394, Wild tribes of the plains, 430-470.
395.

Tomocomo takes the English census, 102.
Treaty at Fort Dade, 412; Greenville, 350;
Fort Harmar, 339; Shakamaxon, 83; with