The Old North Trail: Index

The Old North Trail, by Walter McClintock, [1910] Alberta (Canadian province), 1, 334, 363, 370, 507 Almost-a-Dog Mountain, 14, 113 Altar Sun-dance, 294 American Museum of Natural History, 519 Apache Indians, 371 April, name for, 486 A-pe-ech-eken, Blackfeet name for author, 93; dance by, 100; meeting with Brings-down-the-Sun, 383; explanation of name, 401 Arapahoe Indians, tradition of, 402; sign for, 404 Assinniboine Indians, 206, 238, 442 August, name for, 487 Aurora Borealis, 487; names for, 521-2 Autumn season, name for, 487 Awunna, medicine man, 102; methods of doctoring, 244-250; practical jokes by, 298, 506 Back-bone-of-the-world, 13 Baldy, pack horse, 37, 41, 113, 121 Bannock Indians, 206 Barren lands, 435 Bear grass, use by Indians, 10, 443, 525 Bear knife, 361 Beavers, a home of, 389 Beaver Bundle, 35, 80, 103, 111, 467 Beaver dam, photograph, 106 Beaver Medicine, owned by Mad Wolf, 29, 35; ceremonial of, 78; legend, 104; photograph, 107, 153, 367, 517 Beaver Pipe, 104 Beaver tipi, 212 Benton Fort, 33 Big Crow Foot, 422 Big Eyes gives author tipi, 23; decorations of tipi, 223 Big Lake, chief, 157 Big Moon, 201 Big Nose, chief, 57 Big Rock tipi, 210 Birch Creek, 438 Bitter Root country, 436 Birds, eastern slope, 389, 479-486; western slope, 11 Blackbird Brewer, 481 Blackfeet, burial customs, 148-150; diet, 22, 237; divisions of, 1; herbs and plants used by, 524-30; marriage customs, 184-191; methods of doctoring, 247-250; mourning customs, 150-153; number, past and present, 4; perfumes used by, 364; pets, 246; proper names, 395-405; proverbs and familiar sayings, 402, 476, 478, 484, 485; religious beliefs, 167-170, 352, 353; skill in sign language, 403; societies, 441-465; songs, 282, 518; starvation of, 4, 509; sign for, 404, 405; present condition, 506-512; names for flowers, 531 Blackfeet tribal camp, first sight of, 18, 208, 481, 495; scenes in, 225, 340 Black Tail Creek, 438 Black Weasel, dance leader, 274 Blessing in ceremonial, 32; on food, 34, 181, 367 Blizzard in mountains, 58 Blood Indians, 1, 206; camp, 364; characteristics, 368; sign for, 404 Blue Jay, 47 Bonnet Medicine, 294, 296, 302, 388 Botanical collection, 364, 524 Brave Dog Society dance, 299, 455465 Brings-down-the-Sun, medicine man, robe of, 312, 327; camp of, 378; meet with, 380; hospitality, 388; character, 415; vow to tell the truth, 418; meaning of name, 427; children of, 385, 431; farewell prayer of, 505; genealogical table of family, 532 Buffalo dance, 99 Buffalo tipi, Black, 215, Yellow, legend of, 162 Buffalo Society, 450 Buffalo tongues as sacred food, 178 Bull Child, medicine man, 310; robe of, 312, 316, 506, 519 Bull Plume, North Piegan, 130, 387, 414 Bull Shoe (famous racehorse), 278 Butterfly (lodge decoration), 408 Buzzard, 484 Calgary, 435 Canada, 325 Cardston, 374 Carnegie Institute, 524 Catlin, 2 Celebration song, 280, 282, 514 Chastity of women, 185 Cheyenne Indians, sign for, 404 Chief Mountain, 173, 424, 463, 520 Children's game song, 515 Clan names, 201, 308; marriage, 187 Clark, Capt. W. P., Sign language, 402, 404 Cleveland Mount, 516 Climate, country of Blackfeet, 4; western slope of Rocky Mountains, 9; eastern slope, 17, 128, 156, 372, 376 Clown, 292 Conjunction of two planets; legend of, 491, 503, 523 Conservation of trees and berry bushes, 385 Continental Divide, 12, 44, 517 Coups, counting on the Centre Pole, 301, 307, 316, 519 Coyotes as pets, 244; attack Indian, 56; as omens, 476 Cree Indians, 206, 238, 338, 442 Cree Medicine, 190 Crow Beaver ceremonial, 407-410 Crow Indians, 2, 359; sign for, 404, 405, 437, 473 Crow Lodge (tipi), 208; origin of, 440 Crow Lodge Mountain, 440 Crow Lodge River, 328, 346, 377, 435, 443 Custer, General, defeat by Sioux, 6 Cutbank Canyon, 18; Medicine Grizzly of, 51, in winter, 72, 455 Cutbank Pass, altitude, 13, 51 Cutbank River, 15, 517 Cypress Hills, 160 December, name for, 486 De Smet, Father, 157; Indian name, 401, 518 Diet of Blackfeet, 22, 237, 238, 442, 485; Author's, 23; Cree, 238 Doctoring the sick, 142, 174, 247-250 Dog dance, 100 Dogs, death of Red Rover, 155; trained, 246; foraging, 254 Dog feast, Assinniboine, 238 Don't Laugh clan, origin of name, 201 Dove, 11 Dove society, 449 Dreams, origin of names, 396; butterfly bringer of, 408; dream of author, 412 Dream People, 396 Eagle, golden, feathers of, 429, 484; white headed, 484 Elk Horn, the herald, 257, 271, 506 Elk medicine, home of, 62 Fairy Rings, 363 Fasting of sacred woman, 194, 202; medicine men, 314 Father-in-law customs, 187 Feasts, ceremonial of adoption, 34; beaver medicine, 102, 467; marriage, 186; at birth of child, 188; manner of inviting guests, 226; Assinniboine 238; Sun-dance, 302, of sacred tongues, 311; Crow Beaver ceremonial, 408 Flathead Indians, 7, 51, 157, 206, 226; sign for, 404, 405 Flicker, 11 Flinch's Peak, 14 Flowers, western slope of Rocky Mountains, 10; eastern slope, 41; on prairie, 18; Blackfeet names for, 531 Forest Commission, National, 6 Four Bears, medicine man, 321 Games, kinds of, 391; children's song, 391, 515 Garden wall, 14 Ghost stories, 139-142; Crow Eagle and, 145; our experience with, 330; as owls, 477 Gives-to-the-Sun (wife of Mad Wolf), 29, 173; vow to give Sun-dance, 174, 178, 296, 302, 309, 315 Gifts, generosity of Blackfeet, 261, 367; exchange of, 381 Glacier National Park, 15, 517 Goat Mountain, 114 Goats, mountain, 12; hunting, 113 Going-to-the-Sun mountain, 14, 113; meaning of name, 115 Government, W.S., former policy, 509; present policy, 510, 511 Grasshoppers, way of colouring wings, 377 Grease Melters, clan of, 57; origin of name, 201 Great Bear constellation, 218; legend of, 488, 500, 523 Grinnell Glacier, 14 Grizzly bear, author's night experience with, 48-51; Siksikakoan's experience with, 44; Medicine Grizzly of Cutbank Canyon, 51-55; legend, 62-70, 468-473; Medicine Pipe, 253 Grizzly Bear dance, 264, 406, 461 Gros Ventre Indians, 53, 159, 206, 238; sign for, 404, 442, 452 Grouse, ruffed, 11; drumming imitated in Medicine Pipe ceremonial, 259 Gull herring, 481 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 Hercules, constellation of, 500 Hide, ceremonial of cutting, 306 Horses, Blackfeet, food in winter, 71 Horse races, 278 Humour of Blackfeet, 298 Infidelity of wife, penalty for, 185 Iron Shirt, chief, 422; initiation into Medicine Pipe Society, 423 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 Kinglet, golden crowned, 11 Kissing dance, 243 Kutenai Indians, 52, 206; sign for, 404 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 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 Mandan Indians, 206; sign for, 404, 521 March, name for, 486 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 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 Wolf, legend of, 473-476 Menepoka attacked by coyotes, 56 Meteors turn into Dusty Stars, 217, 501 Milk River, North Fork of, 334 Milk River Ridge, 124; in blizzard, 128-130 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 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 Mu-koi-sa-po (Wolf Plume) owner of Yellow Buffalo Tipi, 164; owner of a Beaver Bundle, 467 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 Poïa, 518 Nez Perce Indians, 206, 371; sign for, 404, 405 Northern crown, constellation, 500 North Piegans, 375 North Trail, Old, 3, 18, 328, 434-437 November, name for, 486 Nuthatch, red-breasted, 11 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 Owl, medicine pipe, 254; on ghosts of dead, 148, 477 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-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 Poïa 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 Rabbit snow-shoe, 74 Rainbow, 487 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 Rising Wolf Mountain, 43, 126, 242, 325 Robe, sacred elk-skin, 302, 498 Robin, 11 Rocky Mountains, 1, 7; names for, 13, 36, 113, 125, 440, 503 Roosevelt, Theodore, 510 Rooster, song of, 484 Running Crane, chief, 192, 205; speech of, 276, 323, 506 Running Rabbit, ghost of, 141 Running Wolf, origin of name, 418, 427, 434 St. Mary's Lakes, 113, 122, 439 St. Mary's River, 122, 334, 424, 517 Sand Hills, 144; description of, 148, 324 Sarcee Indians, 206 Sarvis berries as food supply, 385; for feast, 408, 466, 529 Saskatchewan River North, 1, 517 Scarface, 296, 308; legend, 491, 503 Screaming Owl, head chief, 331 Serpent Tipi, 211 September, name for, 487 Sexton Glacier, 14 Seven Brothers (Great Bear constellation), 218, 312; legend of, 488, 500, 523 Sign for Buffalo, 83; Antelope, 85, 262; Elk, 263; Swan, 265, Sign language, 402-405 Siksikakoan (Mr. Jackson), record of, 6; death, 7; character, 23, 506 Sham battles, 277 Shoshone Indians, 468 Sioux Indians, 206, 278, 371; sign for, 404, 405 Sioux dance, 243, 514; celebration song, 514 Siyeh (Mad Wolf), chief, 20; letter from, 172 Siyeh (Mad Wolf), Mountain, 14, 116 Skunks, clan, origin of name, 201 Smallpox epidemics, 4, 422, 444 Small Robes, clan, conversion to Christianity, 166, 201 Snipe, 483 Snipe Wilson, 481 Snake Indians, sign for, 404, 405; expedition against, 419, 468 Snake Woman, doctor for Mad Wolf, 324 Snow Tipi, legend of, 133, 134 Societies, Blackfeet, Raven, 146; Mad Dog, 206, 284; Brave Dog, 299, 455-465; Kit-fox, 445-447; Mosquito, 448; Dove, 449; Buffalo, 450 Songs, Black feet, 242, 277, 280, 281, 282, 293, 297, 308, 318, 376, 410, 411, 513 Sparrow, chipping, 11; Savanna, 173, 504; white crowned, 389, 504; white throat, 389, 481; song, 482; western lark, 479, 481; vesper, 481 Spear, sacred, 277 Sperry Glacier, 14 Spotted Eagle, medicine man, 182, 286, 305, 310, 312, 320, 334, 477, 506 Spring Season, name for, 486 Star Boy, legend of, 491 Stony Indians, 484 Stuyimi, doctoring of, 244-250 Strikes-on-both-sides, daughter of Mad Wolf, 30; costume, 77; dance, 99, 176 Summer Season, name for, 487 Sun-dance, meaning of, 170; beginning of, 178; ceremonial, 284-290, 293-297, 302-311,; decline of, 507-509 Sunflowers, velvet leaf, 19 Sun-lodge, erection of, 308; ceremonials inside, 312 Sun Worship, 167, decline of, 507-509 Superstitions, Medicine Pipe, 267-269 Sweat-lodge, erection of and ceremonial, 284-290, 430 Sweet grass incense, 31, 78, 173, 180, 296, 306, 498, 500; as perfume, 364, 530 Sweet pine as incense, 268, 296; as perfume, 364, 530 Sweet Pine Hills (or Sweet Grass Hills), 77, 122, 215 Swift Current Pass, 15 Swift Current River, 439 Tanning hides, 230 Tetons, 437 Thrush, hermit, 11; olive backed, 11, 503 Thunder-bird, lodge decoration, 135, 265; dance, 407, 408; home of 425, 519-20 Thunder Chief, 253; gives Pipe, 352, 487 Thunder Tipi, 213, 407, 408; rules of, 410, 413 Tipi, author's, 222; making, covering of, 232; at night, 242; pitching of, 234; Painted, 205-224 Tobacco, origin of, 108; kinds used, 528 Tongues, sacred, 178, 303, 305, 316 Torture, self, of warriors, 318, 319 Travelling song, 281 Tribal hymn, 515; regulations, 521 Triple Divide, 14 Tuberculosis, 512 Turtle Mountain, 378 Two Medicine Falls, 43 Two Medicine Lake, 325 Two Medicine River, ghosts along, 141, meaning of name, 438 Underground Animals, 286 Underground Spirits, 317 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 Wakes-up-last, murder of family, 152, 304, 504, 518 Warbler, myrtle, 11; yellow, 11, 481 War horse of Morning Eagle, 226 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 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 Wolves, ravages of game by, 74 Woman's Pipe, 266 Women, morality of Blackfeet, 184, 185; position of, 188, 189; industries of, 230-237 Wren, winter, 11 Yellowstone River, 1, 216, 469 Yellowthroat, 389; Maryland, 504