Grouse, ruffed, 11; drumming imitated in Medicine Pipe ceremonial, 259
Gull herring, 481
H
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
Henry, Alex, 402, 521
Hercules, constellation of, 500
Hide, ceremonial of cutting, 306
Horses, Blackfeet, food in winter, 71
Horse races, 278
Hudson's Bay Divide, 128, 328
Humour of Blackfeet, 298
I
Infidelity of wife, penalty for, 185 Iron Shirt, chief, 422; initiation into Medicine Pipe Society, 423
J
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
Kingbird, 481, 482
Kinglet, golden crowned, 11
Kissing dance, 243
Kit-fox Society, 445-447
Kootenai River, 374, 439
Kutenai Indians, 52, 206; sign for, 404
p. 536
L
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
M
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
Magpie, 428; song, 481
Maker of storms, 137, 352
Mandan Indians, 206; sign for, 404, 521
March, name for, 486
Marias River, 215, 472, 517
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 lore, 190; Cree, 190
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 Robe, 312, 430, 498
Medicine Wolf, legend of, 473-476
Menake, 203, 245, 325, 518
Menepoka attacked by coyotes, 56
Meteors turn into Dusty Stars, 217, 501
Mexico, 3, 435
Milk River, North Fork of, 334
Milk River Ridge, 124; in blizzard, 128-130
Milky Way, 324, 498
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 Plume, 29, 324, 506
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
Mud Head Creek, 437, 438
p. 537
Mu-koi-sa-po (Wolf Plume) owner of Yellow Buffalo Tipi, 164; owner of a Beaver Bundle, 467
Music, Indian, 282, 283
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 Poa, 518
Nez Perce Indians, 206, 371; sign for, 404, 405
Night song, 281, 282, 515
North Blackfeet, 1, 206
Northern crown, constellation, 500
North Piegans, 375
North star, 499, 524
North Trail, Old, 3, 18, 328, 434-437
November, name for, 486
Nuthatch, red-breasted, 11
O
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
Otter Tipi, 218, 219
Owl, medicine pipe, 254; on ghosts of dead, 148, 477
P
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-dance, 86, 98, 264
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
Poa 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
R
Rabbit snow-shoe, 74
Rainbow, 487
p. 538
Raven, 481, 483, 498
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
Two Medicine River, ghosts along, 141, meaning of name, 438
U
Underground Animals, 286
Underground Spirits, 317
V
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
W
Wakes-up-last, murder of family, 152, 304, 504, 518
Warbler, myrtle, 11; yellow, 11, 481
War horse of Morning Eagle, 226
War Song, 277, 421, 514
War Tipi, 219-221
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
Willow Creek, 193, 199
Windmaker, home of, 60, 352
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
Wolf Song, 243, 410, 503, 513
Wolf Trail, 324, 498, 506
Wolves, ravages of game by, 74
Woman's Pipe, 266
Women, morality of Blackfeet, 184, 185; position of, 188, 189; industries of, 230-237