Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field

Index

Index Numbers in italic script refer to the figure numbers of illustrations, which follow page 84. Acoma (Pueblo), 9, 48, 51–52; and Acomita, 52; and Enchanted Mesa, 9 Alaska, 5, 12, 95, 114–130. See also Alaska-YukonPaci fic Exposition; Harriman Alaska Expedition ; Klondike gold rush Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (Seattle), 70, 85, 86 Alberta, 57 Alert Bay bc, 91, 93 Aleut (Arctic), 114. See also Eskimo American Museum of Natural History (nyc), 14, 70, 71, 72; and Secretary H. C. Bumpus, 72 Anasazi ruins, 55–56, 133, 134, 153 n.22 Angeline, Princess (Duwamish), 4 anthropology. See ethnologists Apache (Southwest), 3, 31, 34–35, 36–44, 133; and alcohol, 25, 39–41; Chiricahua, 17, 30; Cibecue, 39, 45; and formation of Curtis project, 6; and Fort Apache az, 34 (see also Cooley, Corydon E.), 41–42; and Fort Sill ok, 30; material culture , 9; medicine men (see Bizhuan, Das Lan, Goshonne); and “messiah craze,” 41, 45, 47; prayer, text of, 43–44; religion, 33, 39, 43–44, 47, 138; reluctance to impart spiritual information , 37–39, 40, 41–43, 45–47; reservations, 30; sub-groups 17, 30; mentioned, 1, 11, 50 Apsaroke. See Crow Arapaho (Plains), 85 Arctic culture area and peoples, 114–130 Arikara (Plains), 10, 68, 136 Assiniboine (Plains), 57, 68, 69 Atsina (Plains), 12, 136 Austin, Mary, 146–147 Bannock (Great Basin), 17 Battle of the Little Big Horn, 10, 16, 64, 22 Bear Black (Cheyenne), 61–62, 12 Bear Black, Davy (Cheyenne), 60–61 Bizhuan (Apache), 39–44 Blackfeet, Blackfoot, or Piegan (Plains), 57, 58– 59, 72, 73–81, 14; at Browning mt (Blackfeet Agency), 17, 73; at buffalo fall, 76–77, 80–81; and “buffalo stones,” 80–81; and formation of Curtis project, 5; histories of, 76; landscape and reservation, 73–74, 84; medicine bundle, 77, 79–80, 81; Medicine Pipe ceremony, 80, 81; population of, 136; reluctance to disclose sacred information, 76; sun dance, 5, 58–59; sweat practices, 22, 78–79, 81; text of song to Weasel Woman, 80–81; tipis, 77, 81; as warriors , 63, 64; mentioned, 10 Blackfoot. See Blackfeet, Blackfoot, or Piegan. Boas, Franz, 14, 95, 99 Boesen, Victor, 87, 100 Bourke, John G. (On the Border with Crook), 34 Bowditch, Charlotte, 99, 109 Brandon, William (American Heritage Book of Indians), 24 British Columbia, 18, 21, 70, 71 Bull Chief (Crow), 65, 66 Bureau of American Ethnology, 6, 9, 134. See also Smithsonian Institution Burke, Thomas, 6 Burroughs, John, 5 Caddo (Plains), 17 Cahuilla (California), 109, 132; at Palm Cañon, 159 n.1 California culture area, 12, 19, 108–114, 135–136. See also names of specific peoples 171 172 Index Canadian Department of Indian Affairs, 16, 18, 20, 21 Cape Prince of Wales ak: and its Eskimo people, 115, 124–125, 127–128 Carlisle Indian Industrial School (pa), 10, 32, 154 n.6 Carnegie, Andrew, 8, 72 Carnegie Hall (nyc), 14 Carson, Kit, 16, 17 Cayuse (Plateau), 82 Chemehuevi (California), 109, 147, 24 Cherokee (Southeast), 15 Cheyenne (Plains), 16, 57, 59–63, 64, 84; folklore of, 61; at Fort Robinson ne, 16; medical practices, 61–62, 12; and Willow Dance (sun dance), 85; mentioned, 5, 11 Chinook (Northwest Coast), 18, 90–91 Chinook jargon, 18, 21, 82, 96 Chipewyan (subarctic), 57 Chiricahua. See Apache Cibecue. See Apache Cibola. See Zuni Clallam (Northwest Coast), 18, 100 Clatsop (Northwest Coast), 94 Clayoquot (Northwest Coast), 100–101 Coastal Salish (Northwest Coast), 4, 18, 70, 95, 143; “Siwashes,” 95. See also Puget Sound wa Cochiti (Pueblo), 48 Coeur d’Alene (Plateau), 19 Collins, Henry B., 118, 122–123, 129, 160 n.12 Columbia (Plateau), 19, 24–25, 82, 84 Columbia River, 11, 18, 82, 83, 93–94, 136; Cascades or Great Falls of the, 89–90, Celilo Falls of the, 88, 92; The Dalles of the, 17, 83, 87, 90, 92, 136; and Hood River, 90; and Pasco, 91; voyage down, 87–91, 92, and Willamette River, 90. See also Willapa Colville (Plateau), 19, 82 Colville Reservation wa, 19, 20, 24, 82, 84, 15; and Nespelem (agency), 19, 132 Comanche (Plains), 17, 57 Cooley, Corydon E., 34, 152 n.4; Cooley’s, 34–35 Cowichan (Northwest Coast), 93, 95, 17 “Crane” (white trader), 65 Crazy Pend D’Oreille (Crow), 10 Cree (subarctic), 12, 57, 76 Creek (Southeast), 15 Crook, Gen. George, 34 Crow, Chief (Blackfeet), 77 Crow or Apsaroke (Plains), 17, 57, 63, 141, 25; as warriors, 63–65, 5; at Black Cañon, 15, 23, 132; and...