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Alberta (Canadian province), 1, 334, 363, 370, 507
Almost-a-Dog Mountain, 14, 113
Altar Sun-dance, 294
American Museum of Natural History, 519
Apache Indians, 371
April, name for, 486
A-pe-ech-eken, Blackfeet name for author, 93; dance by, 100; meeting with Brings-down-the-Sun, 383; explanation of name, 401
Arapahoe Indians, tradition of, 402; sign for, 404
Assinniboine Indians, 206, 238, 442
August, name for, 487
Aurora Borealis, 487; names for, 521-2
Autumn season, name for, 487
Awunna, medicine man, 102; methods of doctoring, 244-250; practical jokes by, 298, 506
Back-bone-of-the-world, 13
Baldy, pack horse, 37, 41, 113, 121
Bannock Indians, 206
Barren lands, 435
Bear grass, use by Indians, 10, 443, 525
Bear knife, 361
Beavers, a home of, 389
Beaver Bundle, 35, 80, 103, 111, 467
Beaver dam, photograph, 106
Beaver Medicine, owned by Mad Wolf, 29, 35; ceremonial of, 78; legend, 104; photograph, 107, 153, 367, 517
Beaver Pipe, 104
Beaver tipi, 212
Benton Fort, 33
Big Crow Foot, 422
Big Eyes gives author tipi, 23; decorations of tipi, 223
Big Lake, chief, 157
Big Moon, 201
Big Nose, chief, 57
Big Rock tipi, 210
Birch Creek, 438
Bitter Root country, 436
Birds, eastern slope, 389, 479-486; western slope, 11
Blackbird Brewer, 481
Blackfeet, burial customs, 148-150; diet, 22, 237; divisions of, 1; herbs and plants used by, 524-30; marriage customs, 184-191; methods of doctoring, 247-250; mourning customs, 150-153; number, past and present, 4; perfumes used by, 364; pets, 246; proper names, 395-405; proverbs and familiar sayings, 402, 476, 478, 484, 485; religious beliefs, 167-170, 352, 353; skill in sign language, 403; societies, 441-465; songs, 282, 518; starvation of, 4, 509; sign for, 404, 405; present condition, 506-512; names for flowers, 531
Blackfeet tribal camp, first sight of, 18, 208, 481, 495; scenes in, 225, 340
Black Tail Creek, 438
Black Weasel, dance leader, 274
Blessing in ceremonial, 32; on food, 34, 181, 367
Blizzard in mountains, 58
Blood Indians, 1, 206; camp, 364; characteristics, 368; sign for, 404
Blue Jay, 47
Bonnet Medicine, 294, 296, 302, 388
Botanical collection, 364, 524
Brave Dog Society dance, 299, 455465
Brings-down-the-Sun, medicine man, robe of, 312, 327; camp of, 378; meet with, 380; hospitality, 388; character, 415; vow to tell the truth, 418; meaning of name, 427; children of, 385, 431; farewell prayer of, 505; genealogical table of family, 532
Buffalo dance, 99
Buffalo tipi, Black, 215, Yellow, legend of, 162
Buffalo Society, 450
Buffalo tongues as sacred food, 178
Bull Child, medicine man, 310; robe of, 312, 316, 506, 519
Bull Plume, North Piegan, 130, 387, 414
Bull Shoe (famous racehorse), 278
Butterfly (lodge decoration), 408
Buzzard, 484
Calgary, 435
Canada, 325
Cardston, 374
Carnegie Institute, 524
Catlin, 2
Celebration song, 280, 282, 514
Chastity of women, 185
Cheyenne Indians, sign for, 404
Chief Mountain, 173, 424, 463, 520
Children's game song, 515
Clan names, 201, 308; marriage, 187
Clark, Capt. W. P., Sign language, 402, 404
Cleveland Mount, 516
Climate, country of Blackfeet, 4; western slope of Rocky Mountains, 9; eastern slope, 17, 128, 156, 372, 376
Clown, 292
Conjunction of two planets; legend of, 491, 503, 523
Conservation of trees and berry bushes, 385
Continental Divide, 12, 44, 517
Coups, counting on the Centre Pole, 301, 307, 316, 519
Coyotes as pets, 244; attack Indian, 56; as omens, 476
Cree Indians, 206, 238, 338, 442
Cree Medicine, 190
Crow Beaver ceremonial, 407-410
Crow Indians, 2, 359; sign for, 404, 405, 437, 473
Crow Lodge (tipi), 208; origin of, 440
Crow Lodge Mountain, 440
Crow Lodge River, 328, 346, 377, 435, 443
Custer, General, defeat by Sioux, 6
Cutbank Canyon, 18; Medicine Grizzly of, 51, in winter, 72, 455
Cutbank Pass, altitude, 13, 51 Cutbank River, 15, 517
Cypress Hills, 160
December, name for, 486
De Smet, Father, 157; Indian name, 401, 518
Diet of Blackfeet, 22, 237, 238, 442, 485; Author's, 23; Cree, 238
Doctoring the sick, 142, 174, 247-250
Dog dance, 100
Dogs, death of Red Rover, 155; trained, 246; foraging, 254
Dog feast, Assinniboine, 238
Don't Laugh clan, origin of name, 201
Dove, 11
Dove society, 449
Dreams, origin of names, 396; butterfly bringer of, 408; dream of author, 412
Dream People, 396
Eagle, golden, feathers of, 429, 484; white headed, 484
Elk Horn, the herald, 257, 271, 506
Elk medicine, home of, 62
Fairy Rings, 363
Fasting of sacred woman, 194, 202; medicine men, 314
Father-in-law customs, 187
Feasts, ceremonial of adoption, 34; beaver medicine, 102, 467; marriage, 186; at birth of child, 188; manner of inviting guests, 226; Assinniboine 238; Sun-dance, 302, of sacred tongues, 311; Crow Beaver ceremonial, 408
Flathead Indians, 7, 51, 157, 206, 226; sign for, 404, 405
Flicker, 11
Flinch's Peak, 14
Flowers, western slope of Rocky Mountains, 10; eastern slope, 41; on prairie, 18; Blackfeet names for, 531
Forest Commission, National, 6
Four Bears, medicine man, 321
Games, kinds of, 391; children's song, 391, 515
Garden wall, 14
Ghost stories, 139-142; Crow Eagle and, 145; our experience with, 330; as owls, 477
Gives-to-the-Sun (wife of Mad Wolf), 29, 173; vow to give Sun-dance, 174, 178, 296, 302, 309, 315
Gifts, generosity of Blackfeet, 261, 367; exchange of, 381
Glacier National Park, 15, 517
Goat Mountain, 114
Goats, mountain, 12; hunting, 113
Going-to-the-Sun mountain, 14, 113; meaning of name, 115
Government, W.S., former policy, 509; present policy, 510, 511
Grasshoppers, way of colouring wings, 377
Grease Melters, clan of, 57; origin of name, 201
Great Bear constellation, 218; legend of, 488, 500, 523
Grinnell Glacier, 14
Grizzly bear, author's night experience with, 48-51; Siksikakoan's experience with, 44; Medicine Grizzly of Cutbank Canyon, 51-55; legend, 62-70, 468-473; Medicine Pipe, 253
Grizzly Bear dance, 264, 406, 461
Gros Ventre Indians, 53, 159, 206, 238; sign for, 404, 442, 452
Grouse, ruffed, 11; drumming imitated in Medicine Pipe ceremonial, 259
Gull herring, 481
Hair Parter's Society, dance of, 271
Hard Top Knot clan, origin of name, 201
Hartley Randolph, 519
Hawk fish, 484
Hawk, night, 484
Helena city, 405
Hercules, constellation of, 500
Hide, ceremonial of cutting, 306
Horses, Blackfeet, food in winter, 71
Horse races, 278
Humour of Blackfeet, 298
Infidelity of wife, penalty for, 185 Iron Shirt, chief, 422; initiation into Medicine Pipe Society, 423
Jackson Mountain, 14
Jackson, William (scout), 6
James Mountain, 14
January, Blackfeet name for, 486
Jennings, O. E., 524
July, Blackfeet name for, 487
Junco, 11
June, Blackfeet name for, 487
Jupiter as morning star, legend of, 491, 503, 524
K
Kainau (Blood Indians), 1, 364
Kildeer, 483
Kinglet, golden crowned, 11
Kissing dance, 243
Kutenai Indians, 52, 206; sign for, 404
Lame Bull, chief, 422
Lark, pallid horned, 480
Lark, western meadow, 479; song of, 482, 504
Lee's Creek, 438
Leupp, Francis E., Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 510
Lewis and Clark, 2
Little Big Horn, battle of, 6
Little Chief Mountain, 14, 113
Little Dog, head chief, 422
Little Dog, war chief, 291
Little Mountain, chief, 418, 419
Little Plume, war chief, 277; photograph, 289, 290, 206
Little Sister, the, 523
Lodge poles, cutting of, 52, 518
Lone Dog, Sioux chief, 278
Lone Eaters’ clan, origin of name, 201
Longspur, chestnut collared, 479; song, 482
Loon, 11
Lookout Butte, 380; view from, 393, 501, 503
Lost children, 218; legend of, 490, 523
Love medicine, 191
Love song, 242, 283, 318, 411, 513
Lynx dance, 95
Lupine blue, abundant, 19
Macgillivray, warbler, 11
Mackenzie, explorer, 3
Macleod, Canada, 389
Mad Wolf (Siyeh), chief, first meeting with, 20; ceremonial of adoption, 26-35; prayer by, 33; his fight with Kutenai Indians, 52; gives ceremonial of Beaver Medicine, 76-102; tells legend of Beaver Medicine, 103-112; his home on Cutbank River, 124; tells the legend of the Snow Tipi, 133-138; tells of Father De Smet, 157-166; his letter of invitation, 171; his summer camp, 173; final disposal of author's letters, 150, 173; Sun-dance of, 174-323; leads ceremonial of Sweat-lodge, 285; his farewell speech, 322; death, 323, 506
Mad Wolf (Siyeh) Mountain, 14, 113
Mad Dog Society as police, 206; in ceremonial of Sweat-lodge, 284; origin, 452-454; costume, 458
Mad Indian, tragedy of, 372-374
Mandan Indians, 206; sign for, 404, 521
March, name for, 486
Marmots, hoary, 12
Marriage customs, 184
Meals, time of, 442
Meat, preparation of, 237
Medicine, meaning of word, 168, 517
Medicine Bonnet, 294, 296, 302, 496, 500
Medicine Grizzly, legends of, 51-55, 468-473
Medicine man, origin of name, 168
Medicine men, doctoring sick, 142-144, 174, 244-250; as weather makers, 128; in Sun Lodge, 314, 320, 321
Medicine Pipe, used in time of sickness, 143; in burial, 164, 253, 254; ceremonial of, 253-270; ceremonial at time of first thunder, 387; dances, 406; origin of a, 424426; Pipe Society initiation of members, 252-270, 423-426
Medicine Wolf, legend of, 473-476
Menepoka attacked by coyotes, 56
Meteors turn into Dusty Stars, 217, 501
Milk River, North Fork of, 334
Milk River Ridge, 124; in blizzard, 128-130
Missions, Christian among Blackfeet, 512
Moon used in decoration, 218, 313; prayers to, 288, 333, legend of, 493
Moons, origin of, 109; calendar of, 486
Morning Eagle and his war-horse, 226
Morning Star, prayers to, 157, 288, 324; in lodge decoration, 219, 491, 492, 503, 523
Mosquito Society, 448
Mother-in-law customs, 187, 408, 432
Mountain Chief, 201; speech, 276
Mourning customs, 150, 152, 153, 164, 165, 369
Mu-koi-sa-po (Wolf Plume) owner of Yellow Buffalo Tipi, 164; owner of a Beaver Bundle, 467
N
Names, Blackfeet, 385; for trees, 386; superstition against telling 395; selection of, 396, 397, of females 399; of males, 400; animals, 401; origin of Running Wolf, 418; Iron Shirt, 422; topographical, 434-440; of birds, 481484; moons, constellations, etc., 486-488
Napi (Old Man), 56, 78, 337, 440
Natosin, from North Blackfeet, vow by, 229, 285, 294, 303
Natosin Nepe-e, medicine man, 327; meaning of name, 423
Nevin, Arthur, Indian name, 400; composer of Opera Poïa, 518
Nez Perce Indians, 206, 371; sign for, 404, 405
Northern crown, constellation, 500
North Piegans, 375
North Trail, Old, 3, 18, 328, 434-437
November, name for, 486
Nuthatch, red-breasted, 11
October, name for, 487
Old agency, 333
Old Man, 56, 337; stories, 338-348, 440
Old Man's River, 377
O-mis-tai-po-kah, head chief, 34, 77; prayer of, 95, 297, 308, founder of Mad Dogs, 452-506
One Spot (blood), 367
Onesta, 325, and Bear Spear, 352
Owl, medicine pipe, 254; on ghosts of dead, 148, 477
Pack horses, characteristics, 36
Paint, sacred red, Mad Wolf paints author, 32, 94; origin of, 108; for doctoring sick, 143; specialists, 214; how secured, 215
Paint, yellow, used in ceremonial of
Snow Tipi, 136; sacred to buffalo, 163, where secured, 215; used by a doctor, 250
Painted Tipis, 134, 162, 207-224
Parade, tribal, 290; of Sioux warriors, 280
Pare, Andrew, 522
Parfleches, making of, 231, 518
Pemmican, preparation of, 237
Pend d’Oreille Indians, 206; sign for, 404, 463
Perfumes used by Blackfeet, 364, 530 Pets, 245, 246
Photographing Beaver medicine ceremonial, difficulty in, 153, also of women, 231; Medicine Pipe ceremonial, 258
Picture-writing on tipis, 217-224; on war horse, 226; on medicine man and his robe, 312, 313; in tribunal records, 422, 423, 468
Piegan Indians, 1; sign for, 404 Pinchot Gifford, 6
Pinchot Mountain, 14
Pipe, Beaver, 86, 98, 104; origin of, 111
Pipe-dancing, 436
Pipe, Long Time, 427
Pipe, smoking customs, 31, 188
Piskun, 346, 437-439; women's, 440, 451, 520
Pleiades constellation, in lodge decoration, 218; on medicine robe, 313; legend, 490, 523
Poïa legend, 491, 503; opera, 519
Pole, ceremonial of Raising Centre, preparatory service, 293, securing material for, 300, 301; gifts tied to, 307
Pole hymn, Raising the Centre, 308, 311, 513
Police, Blackfeet, 206; societies as, 465
Police, Canadian Mounted, 371, 372, 422
Polygamy, reasons for, 188
Porcupine Mountains, 328, 377, 429
Preservation of Blackfeet songs, 283
Preservation by North Piegans of trees and berry bushes, 385, 386
Prongs used in ceremonial, 79; origin of, 500
Proverbs and familiar sayings of Blackfeet, 402, 476, 478, 484, 485
Purification of a woman, 97
Rabbit snow-shoe, 74
Rainbow, 487
Raven Society, 146
Records, keeping of tribal, 220, 221, 422, 423, 468
Red Eagle Glacier, 14
Red Eagle Mountain, 43, 113, 120
Red Fox singing night song, 282
Religious beliefs of Blackfeet, 167-170, 352, 353,
Reno Mayor, retreat of, 7
Rhubarb, wild, used in ceremonial, 295, 296, 485, 529
Rising Wolf Mountain, 43, 126, 242, 325
Robe, sacred elk-skin, 302, 498
Robin, 11
Rocky Mountains, 1, 7; names for, 13, 36, 113, 125, 440, 503
Roosevelt, Theodore, 510
Rooster, song of, 484
Running Crane, chief, 192, 205; speech of, 276, 323, 506
Running Rabbit, ghost of, 141
Running Wolf, origin of name, 418, 427, 434
St. Mary's Lakes, 113, 122, 439
St. Mary's River, 122, 334, 424, 517
Sand Hills, 144; description of, 148, 324
Sarcee Indians, 206
Sarvis berries as food supply, 385; for feast, 408, 466, 529
Saskatchewan River North, 1, 517
Scarface, 296, 308; legend, 491, 503
Screaming Owl, head chief, 331
Serpent Tipi, 211
September, name for, 487
Sexton Glacier, 14
Seven Brothers (Great Bear constellation), 218, 312; legend of, 488, 500, 523
Sign for Buffalo, 83; Antelope, 85, 262; Elk, 263; Swan, 265, Sign language, 402-405
Siksikakoan (Mr. Jackson), record of, 6; death, 7; character, 23, 506
Sham battles, 277
Shoshone Indians, 468
Sioux Indians, 206, 278, 371; sign for, 404, 405
Sioux dance, 243, 514; celebration song, 514
Siyeh (Mad Wolf), chief, 20; letter from, 172
Siyeh (Mad Wolf), Mountain, 14, 116
Skunks, clan, origin of name, 201
Smallpox epidemics, 4, 422, 444
Small Robes, clan, conversion to Christianity, 166, 201
Snipe, 483
Snipe Wilson, 481
Snake Indians, sign for, 404, 405; expedition against, 419, 468
Snake Woman, doctor for Mad Wolf, 324
Snow Tipi, legend of, 133, 134
Societies, Blackfeet, Raven, 146; Mad Dog, 206, 284; Brave Dog, 299, 455-465; Kit-fox, 445-447; Mosquito, 448; Dove, 449; Buffalo, 450
Songs, Black feet, 242, 277, 280, 281, 282, 293, 297, 308, 318, 376, 410, 411, 513
Sparrow, chipping, 11; Savanna, 173, 504; white crowned, 389, 504; white throat, 389, 481; song, 482; western lark, 479, 481; vesper, 481
Spear, sacred, 277
Sperry Glacier, 14
Spotted Eagle, medicine man, 182, 286, 305, 310, 312, 320, 334, 477, 506
Spring Season, name for, 486
Star Boy, legend of, 491
Stony Indians, 484
Stuyimi, doctoring of, 244-250 Strikes-on-both-sides, daughter of Mad Wolf, 30; costume, 77; dance, 99, 176
Summer Season, name for, 487
Sun-dance, meaning of, 170; beginning of, 178; ceremonial, 284-290, 293-297, 302-311,; decline of, 507-509
Sunflowers, velvet leaf, 19
Sun-lodge, erection of, 308; ceremonials inside, 312
Sun Worship, 167, decline of, 507-509
Superstitions, Medicine Pipe, 267-269
Sweat-lodge, erection of and ceremonial, 284-290, 430
Sweet grass incense, 31, 78, 173, 180, 296, 306, 498, 500; as perfume, 364, 530
Sweet pine as incense, 268, 296; as perfume, 364, 530
Sweet Pine Hills (or Sweet Grass Hills), 77, 122, 215
Swift Current Pass, 15
Swift Current River, 439
Tanning hides, 230
Tetons, 437
Thrush, hermit, 11; olive backed, 11, 503
Thunder-bird, lodge decoration, 135, 265; dance, 407, 408; home of 425, 519-20
Thunder Chief, 253; gives Pipe, 352, 487
Thunder Tipi, 213, 407, 408; rules of, 410, 413
Tipi, author's, 222; making, covering of, 232; at night, 242; pitching of, 234; Painted, 205-224
Tobacco, origin of, 108; kinds used, 528
Tongues, sacred, 178, 303, 305, 316
Torture, self, of warriors, 318, 319
Travelling song, 281
Tribal hymn, 515; regulations, 521
Triple Divide, 14
Tuberculosis, 512
Turtle Mountain, 378
Two Medicine Falls, 43
Two Medicine Lake, 325
Two Medicine River, ghosts along, 141, meaning of name, 438
Underground Animals, 286
Underground Spirits, 317
Venus, morning star, legend of, 491, 503, 524
Vireo, 11
Vow, to give Sun-dance, 143, 174, 183; to attend Sun-dance, 229, 333, 384; to give Beaver Medicine ceremonial, 110, 124; in behalf of sick, 124, 304; to give Medicine Pipe ceremonial, 269; to give ceremonial of Painted Tipis, 212, 214; to give Medicine Bonnet ceremonial, 388; of Warriors, 318, 319; of Brings-down-the-Sun to speak the truth, 418
Wakes-up-last, murder of family, 152, 304, 504, 518
Warbler, myrtle, 11; yellow, 11, 481
War horse of Morning Eagle, 226
Wheel and arrow game, 392, 421
Whisky sale to Indians prohibited by Government, 518
White Calf, head chief, 34
White Grass, medicine man, 77, 323
White Throat, 389
White Weasel, Blackfeet name for author, 93, 401
Winter Season, name for, 486 Wissler, Dr. Clark, 519
Wolf Medicine, legend of, 473-478
Wolf Plume (Mu-koi-sa-po), owner of Beaver Bundle, 153, 467; initiation in Medicine Pipe Society, 257-270
Wolves, ravages of game by, 74
Woman's Pipe, 266
Women, morality of Blackfeet, 184, 185; position of, 188, 189; industries of, 230-237
Wren, winter, 11
Yellowstone River, 1, 216, 469
Yellowthroat, 389; Maryland, 504