Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies: The Life of Folklorist Mary Alicia Owen

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167 American Folklore Society, 75, 81 American Fur Company, 12 Anderson, Jeffrey E., 19, 57–58, 59, 66 Anthropological Congress (1893), 81 Apache, Antonio, 86–87 “Apple Mary,” 127 Atkinson, Henry, 100 Aunt Dorcas, 62 Aunt Mary, 20 Bad Axe Massacre, 100 Bassett, Fletcher, 81–82 Belden, Henry Marvin, 118–19 Bellevue (Neb.), 11 Black Hawk, 99, 100–101, 103–4 Blacksnake Hills. See St. Joseph (Mo.) Boas, Franz, 107, 125 Brandon-Falcone, Janice, 38 “Bride’s Farewell, The,” 44, 45 Bronner, Simon, 125 Brown, John, 25 Buckskin Joe (Edward Hoyt), 87 Buffalo, Johnathan, 108 Burr Oak (Cargill home), 15, 28, 32 Burrill, A. C., 88–89, 128 Byrum, Marie, 126 Cargill, Agnes Gilmore Crookes (grandmother), 14, 28 Index Cargill, George (uncle), 28 Cargill, James (grandfather), 14–15, 21; estate, 21, 32–33 Cargill, John (uncle), 15, 22, 28 Cargill family, slaves owned by, 17–18, 20 Chauchetière, Père, 93 Cherokee, slaves owned by, 18 Chicago Folklore Society, 81–82 Chouteau family, 11 Chuck, C. H. (Cha-ka-ta-ko-si), 106 Churchill, Jim, 68 Civil War, 5, 24–30 Clark, William, 99 Concannon, Martin, 109–10 Conjure: Owen’s interest in, 6; defined , 19, 57–58; Owen’s initiation in, 62–63; charms and fetishes, 63; Owen’s opinion of, 65–67 Council Bluff (Fort Calhoun, Neb.), 10 Cullin, Stewart, 78 Darwin, Charles, 74 Daughter of Alouette, The, 2, 7, 85, 89–94, 113, 131 Delaware (Leni Lanappe), 88 Deroine, Jeffery (Jeffery Dorion), 18 Dippie, Brian, 93 168 Index Dorsey, James Owen, 80 Dorson, Richard M., 77 Eagle Mill, 20, 28, 32 Eastman, Charles, 85 Eberle, Jean Fahey, 20–21, 32, 36, 83–84, 87–88, 119, 123 Ellingson, Ter, 92 “Exile’s Daughter, The,” 41–42 Field Museum of Natural History, 107 Folk-Lore, 75 Folk-lore of the Musquakie Indians of North America, 3, 7, 85, 103, 106, 111–14, 120 Folklore: profession of, 5, 72–79, 124–25; literary school, 72–75; anthropological school, 72–75 Ford, Abigail Cargill (aunt), 15, 21–22 Ford, Erastus (uncle), 21–22 Fort Smith, 26 Fur trade, 10–13 Godey’s Lady’s Book, 34–35, 41 GoodTracks, Jimm, 105 Gude, Anthony Benton: Chief White Cloud and the Legend of the Sun Bridge, 135–38, 137 Guitar, Oden, 29 Gypsy-Lore Society, 95 Hale, Sarah Josepha, 34–35, 37 Hales, Rose, 129–30 Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, 16, 23, 30 Harris, Joel Chandler: Uncle Remus, 70–71, 79–80 Harrison, William Henry, 99 Hartland, E. Sydney, 79–80, 111 Harvey, Thomas, 18 Hingston, A., 114 Hoodoo. See Conjure Hrdlicka, Ales, 110 Hughes, Andrew, 101 International Congress for the History of Religion (1911), 122 Iowa, 101 Ioway: African Americans, 18; burial customs, 88, 133 Iron Clad Oath, 29–30 “Jack Looking for a Jill,” 40–41 Jackson, Claiborne Fox, 25–26 James, Jesse, 50 Jayhawkers, 26, 28 Johnson, E. Pauline, 86 Johnson, Joan Marie, 36 Jones, William (Mekasihawa), 107–8 Journal of American Folklore, 75, 80, 94, 104, 105 Kansas, border violence, 24–25 Keahna, Sophilia, 108 Kearney, Stephen Watts, 51 Keokuk, 103 King, George E., 39 King Alexander, 59–64, 79, 83, 102 King Hill (St. Joseph, Mo.), 124, 136, 138 Kurz, Rudolph Friedrich, 14, 17 La Flesche, Francis, 86 Lansing Man, The, 109–10 Lasley, Mary (Bee-wah-thee-wah), 103–4 Leclair, Antoine, 101 “Legends of St. Joseph,” 123–24 Leland, Charles Godfrey: background , 54–55; relationship with Mary Alicia Owen, 55–57, 131–32; conjurer stone belonging to, Index 169 61–62, 102, 116; death of James Owen, comments on, 68; Old Rabbit , the Voodoo, and Other Sorcerers , comments on, 70–71; Second International Folklore Congress, 76–79; Owen’s abandoned hoodoo research, comments on, 83; The Daughter of Alouette, reaction to, 95; Gypsies, interest in, 95; Sac and Fox folklore, advice on, 109; death, 115–16 Leland, Eliza Bella Fisher, 55, 115 Lescarbot, Marc, 93 Life of Black Hawk, 101 Lisa, Manuel, 10 Logan, Sheridan, 30, 135 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: The Song of Hiawatha, 138 “Love Story of Faraon, Most Carefree of the Robidoux Boys,” 127 Lubbers, Klaus, 110 Luck balls, 59–61 Lyon, Nathaniel, 25–26 Macintosh, John (Nekon-Mackintosh), 104, 113 Martial Law, 26–27 Mary Alicia Owen Story Tellers Club, 127 Maximilian, Prince of Wied, 12 McManus, Arthur, 63, 147n22 McNeil, William K., 131–32 Mee-sham, 104–5 Merida, Ellen, 63–64, 102 Meskwaki, 101, 106–8...