INDEX
Abortion, 30; 30 (footnote)
Air regulator, 67
Allegany, 5, 6, 7, 15
Allegany Seneca, 15
Alphabet, 139
Anecdotes of Cornplanter, 136
Animal totem, 39; societies, 39; 40 (footnote), 113; ordered disbanded, 114; are ancient, 115; tabued, 115
Authorized teachers, 5
Avon, 9, 78
Bear, great naked, 119
Bear, mammoth, 28
Bear society, 125
Beauchamp, Dr William M., quoted, 127
Beaver, white, a charm, 119
Bible believers, 64
Blacksnake, Owen, 19
Blue panther, 119
Bluesky, William, 8
Boasting, denounced, 37
Buffalo Creek reservation treaty, 7, 64, 78
Buffaloes, sacred, 43
Buffalo society, 125; dance of, plate 17
Bundle, magic, 29
Cattaraugus, 5, 6
Cattaraugus, Seneca, 7, 15
Ceremony of herb gathering, 54
Ceremony, New Year (see Midwinter), 75
Ceremonies, special, 103
Charm, members, 119
Charms, witch, 28; Seneca name, 30; 30 (footnotes); corn, 54; society for, 119; good and evil, 120
Children, punishment of, 33; Handsome Lake's love of, 33 (footnote); treatment of, 34; warnings of, 34; sin of defaming, 35; hospitality toward, 36; destitute, 36
Christ, section 74, 67
Christian Indians, 6, 14
Christian influence, 11
Civil war, 13
Clairvoyant, 49
Cold Spring, 7, 12, 46, 76
Columbus, Christopher, 18
Command to preach, 26
Cooperation, 39
Conservative Indians, ideas, 14
Converts, 6, 7
Corn bug, 119
Cornplanter creek, 20
Cornplanter, Edward, photograph, plate 2, 5, 6, 8; quoted, 13; 132
Cornplanter (see also Gyantwaka or Gaiantwaka), 11
Cornplanter village, 12, 20, 61
Cornplanting thanksgiving, 54
Corn, spirit, 47; medicine, 54; planting of, 54; drawing, plate 12
Customs changed, 56
Customs, mourning, 107
Creator, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27 to 80; controversy with devil, 48
Dances, 39; four sanctioned, 41, 51, 124
Dark dance, 119
Daughter of Handsome Lake, 22
Dead man reviews, 24
Dearborn, General, letter from, 10
Death chant, 21, 126; drawing, plate 18
Death, coming of, a legend, 105
Death feast, 57, 126
Deer, sacred, 43
Devil, 101
Discovery of America, 16