Index
“A Modest Reply . . . ,” 18, 19, 284, 344, 345, 461n.127 Aberville, 360 ablutions, 160–61. See also going to water acorns, 361, 404; as food, 156, 404 Acosta, José de, 223, 227, 230, 231, 235 Adair, James: among the Choctaw on “public business,” 314, 330; assisted by Benjamin Franklin, 39; at New Windsor , 26; attempts to open trade with Choctaw Indians, 9, 321–26; business partners, 1, 6, 7, 8; Choctaw “Revolt” controversy, 345, 351–53; Choctaw intrigues , 4–8, 12, 14–15, 257; Choctaw trade license, 13; Choctaw treatise, 20– 22, 26, 462n.140; composes HAI, 26, 34–35; early career, 1, 2, 61; education of, 46; efforts to incite Choctaw against French, 335–36; family history , 1, 447n.1, 448n.2; family, 34; fears Choctaw plot against him, 303– 5, 308–12; female informant, 406; Hebrew thesis, 44–45; held captive at Fort Toulouse, 24, 351; in Cherokee war, 29–30, 266–67, 350, 366; lectures Indians on western society, 425–32; letters to William Pinckney, 14, 21– 22; life among Indians, 33–36; linguistic ability, 15, 49–50, 94, 287; markets HAI, 36–38; military expedition against St. Augustine, 439; on American rights, 281, 436–37, 445–46; on Mississippi lands, 435–36, 437–38; on origin of Indians, 480n.21; opinion on backcountry warfare, 281; partner killed, 321; petitions to South Carolina for compensation of losses, 23– 24, 30, 351–52; plan to attack French Louisiana, 27–29; practical jokes, 204, 315, 316; presumed involvement in Jonathan Bryan’s lease of Creek land, 40–41; recovers stolen manuscript in Ireland, 39; relationship with James Glen, 4–5, 15; rivalry with Charles McNaire, 10–11, 14; snubbed by Thomas Gage, 36; supports colonization schemes, 42–43; trader among Cherokee, 1, 25, 261; trader among Chickasaw, 61, 257; trader in West Florida, 32, 367–69; trading house of, 197, 358; view of Spanish writers, 222–23; view on Indian languages, 49; view on missionaries, 363–64; visits New York, 36–37; visits Pennsylvania , 37. See also History of the American Indians adjuratory: Cherokee method, 103–4; Chickasaw and Choctaw method, 104–5 adoption, 218 adultery, 122, 169, 177; cause of smallpox , 252; punishments for, 178–82 agricultural practices, 135, 275, 397– 98, 417 Index Alabama garrison. See Fort Toulouse Alabama Indians, 273, 282, 520n.279 alcohol consumption, 122, 158, 180, 203, 246, 275, 277, 300, 305, 314–16, 343 Allegeny [Allegheny] Mountains, 249, 362 alum: burnt, 204; mountain, 165; root, 516n.248 Amalahta (Chickasaw town), 354 Amelia (Georgia township), 245 America lotus, 401, 544n.455 American Flanders path, 258. See also Chickasaw path Americanus, Sylvanus (Samuel Nevill), 239 Amooklasah [Muccolossus] (Creek town), 290 amphibians, 171 Anantooèah Indians, 386 angelica, 362, 403 angels. See spirits Anglo-Cherokee War of 1759,29,184, 214, 248, 249, 262–69, 366; Cherokee hostages, 29; Indian allies of South Carolina, 29–30 animals: carnivorous, 171; domesticated, 82; Indian names for, 109; unclean or impure, 76, 82, 108, 169, 170–71. See also various animal species Apalahche [Appalachian] Mountains, 247, 249, 260, 262, 269, 273, 346, 350, 359, 362, 389. See also Allegeny [Allegheny] Mountains; Blue Ridge Mountains Apalahchee Indians, 225, 274, 280, 501n.149; old ¤elds, 282 ape, 174. See also monkey Appalachian Mountains. See Apalahche [Appalachian] Mountains Aquahpah Indians (Quapaw), 221, 327, 337 arbors, 141, 149 ark: war, 100, 106–7, 118, 159, 164, 197, 357, 358, 377, 378, 502n.158; construction of, 194; manner carried on war paths, 195 arrows, 195, 211, 289, 402, 413 artwork, 98, 482n.33; on carpets, 411; on pipes, 412; paintings in town houses, 87–88 asafetida, 504n.174 Atkin, Edmond, 9, 17, 269, 305,519n.270; Creek assassination attempt on, 270 Attakullakulla (Cherokee Indian), 129, 332, 492n.94 Auchmuty, Samuel, 37 Augusta, Georgia, 92, 200, 255, 269, 272; garrison at, 246 axes, stone, 246, 397 bacon, 404; bear, 405 ball play, 156, 392–94; balls used, 392; sticks, 392, 393 Barksdale, Isaac, 9, 454n.41 Bartlam, John, 545n.467 baskets, 149, 412–13, 494n.102; creels, 395 bathing, 160–62, 193, 199, 247; by women, 161–62. See also going to water bats, 170 Baussière. See Verbois,Henri de Bayouk Dargent, 355 beads: shell, 201; white, 153, 284, 323 beans, 135, 399, 400; bean plots, 252 bear oil, 150, 202, 405, 497n.128; as condiment, 152; as cosmetic, 162; as emollient, 67; as hair dressing, 163; in religious rites, 112–13, 141, 163, 164 bears, 152, 171, 317–18, 361, 405; bacon from...
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