Kitchi-Gami: Life Among the Lake Superior Ojibway

INDEX

INDEX. Note: Kohl never gave the name of the priest who accompanied him from La Pointe, Wis., to L'Anse, Mich., and at Sault Ste. Marie. From the evidence the priest can be identified as Father Frederic Baraga; he is thus indexed by name. AGABE·GIJIK, Ojibway Indian, 228; name, 229; wigwam, 231; tells life dream, 233-42 Aganab, Ojibway Indian, 277 Agassiz, Louis, geologist, 325 Agriculture, crops, 176, 266-68; gardens, 227, 231, 304 American Fur Co., xvi Amongs, Ojibway Indian, 400-2 Amulets, on cradleboard, 8; personal , 51, 58-59, 62; from bears, 411 Andree, Karl, ethnologist, xxi Annuities, payment, 2, 13, 54, 79, 112-14 Apostle Islands, Wis., 2 Apples, dried, 320 Arithmetic, accounting practices, 112-13 Ash trees, used, 333 BACHE, Alexander D., xxiv Bad River Reservation, xv Baraga, Fr. Frederic, winter trip, 177-80; summer voyage, 180-83; missionary, 189, 314; dictionary, 236, 324, 413; canoist, 305; storyteller, 307-09 Bastian, Adolph, ethnologist, xxvi, xxxv, xxxvi Baths, vapor, 288, 291 Bear King, legend, 458-60 Bears, as pets, 35-36; paws used, 47; honored, 60; hunted, 123-25, 406-7, 410, 412; pelts used, 156; as totem, 159, 207, 208, 244; as spirits, 160; trapped, 173-74; food, 184-85; life spared, 242; in hieroglyphics, 289, 293; as food, 300, 30I; migrations, 405-7; magical properties, 408; clever469 470 KITCHI-GAMI. ness, 409-10; hibernation, 411; parts become amulets, 411; in legend, 454, 458-60 Beaver, as food, 301; hunted, 379, 461-62; value of pelts, 382; dams, 421 Beaver King, legend, 461-64 Beaverhead, St. Marys River, name, 460, 464 Beazley, --, British settler, 172, 173, 175, 178 Bebamisse, Ojibway Indian, 397 Berries, eaten by bears, 185; used for dye, 316 Birch bark, obtained, xli; covers wigwams, 9; used in canoes, 28, 29, 30; used as paper, 145, 150, 153, 155, 161, 165, 385; books, 286, 290, 291; embroidered, 316; food containers, 319; decorated by biting, 412-14 Birch trees, used in building, 5; name, 12 Birds, as pets, 35; names, 397-98. See also individual species Blackfeet Indians, warfare, 343, 346-47, 349; horse thefts, 34849 Bois blanc, 30, 439, 441-42. See also Cedar trees British, defeated, 89; impact on Indians, 368, 371-72; relations with Ojibway, 377-79 Bruce Mines, Ont., 460, 464 Buffalo, as food, 301 CANNIBALISM, incidents, 355, 356-57, 364, 365 Canoes, name, 27; construction, 27-32; method of paddling, 32, 33, 255-56; types, 34; portaged, 169; repair, 172; travel described, 174, 186; cross Lake Superior, 180-83; as preferred transport, 230; speed, 256-57; used at night, 310, 311-12 Cape Iroquois, Mich., 462 Cass, Lewis, author, xxviii-xxix Catholic church, missions, 177, 188-89, 190, 191, 303, 305, 314; priests characterized, 305-7 Caves, hieroglyphics in, 143 Cayeux, Jean, voyageur, 261-65 Cedar trees, used in wigwams, 5, 9; used in cradleboards, 7; used in canoes, 29, 30, 31. See also Bois blanc Cemeteries, graves marked, 16, 158, 159, 230-31; burial service, 109; segregated, 217; offerings in graves, 218; site of war dance, 342; grave construction, 373. See also Death Chequamegon Point, Wis., name, 2 Cherries, preserved, 319-20 Chiefs, authority, 75, 270; personal servants, 85, 161-62; treatment by whites, 131, 132, 146, 27071 , 379; as war leaders, 341, 342 Children, infant care, 6, 7, 8; girls' tasks, I0; war victims, 20; boys' behavior, 38; initiation rites, 4052 , 191-92; girls' behavior, 45, 46; fed, 52, 319; games, 81, 83, 84; mourned, 106-9, 127; receive annuities, 112; girls as runners, 125; difficulty in reaching paradise , 216, 219; privileges, 232; learn revenge, 272; named, 27374 ; long minority of males, 273, 276; silence of, 273, 309 Choctaw Indians, legends, 121, 136 Christianity, lack of appeal, 65, 277-78; impact on Indians, 203, 370, 382, 383, 417 Clothing 327, 343; jewelry, 41; of whites, 57, 40I; as part of annuity, 115-16; wampum, 136; hieroglyphics on, 144, 400 Cloud-head, see Agabe-gijik Colors, symbolism, 16, 414-15 Copper, sought by whites, 54, 6164 , 372; religious significance, 60-61, 62; magic properties, 440; mined, 460 INDEX. 471 Corn, as staple, 266-68; methods of preparation, 300, 322 Cradleboards, described, 6-7, 8; decorations, 90 Cranberries, used for dye, 316; preserved, 321; bogs, 421 Cranes, as totem, 149 Crime, rarity of theft, 68-69; system of punishment, 269-70; asylum for criminal, 271 DANCES, at annuity payment, 1819 ; war, 26, 342-43; at religious rites...