INDEX

Adder’s-tongue, 6.

Agent, Indian, 86, 165.

Agoseris, 184.

Alberta (Canadian Province), 29, 145, 179.

All Chief Band, 251.

Altar, Sun Dance, 301, 305.

American Museum of Natural History, 217, 310.

Amusements, 74, 133, 196, 226, 254.

Anatapsa, granddaughter of Mad Wolf, 75, 85, 249.

Anemone, 161, 320.

Antelope, 151, 213, 254.

Antelope Dance, 295.

Antelope Song, 294.

Á-pe-ech-e-ken, Indian name for author. See White Weasel Moccasin.

Arnica, golden, 161.

Assiniboine Indians, 88; dog-feast of, 256.

Aster, 248.

Auriga, constellation, 143.

Aurora, 118, 227.

Autosuggestion in healing, 270.

Awasáki, prayer by, 308.

Bad-Old-Man, myth, 136.

Baldy, pack-horse of author, 100.

Bands, marriage within, 83; names of, 250, 251.

Bannock Indians, 251.

Barometer, 142, 152.

Barren Lands, 210.

Basket Grass, 6.

Bearberry, 45, 160, 323.

Bear Chief, 24, 251, 306, 307, 312.

Bear Dance, 64.

Bear Paw, 17, 149.

Bear Spear, 174–178.

Beaver, 159, 195, 254.

Beaver Bundle, 22, 37, 42–45; legend of, 46–53; rules of, 45; ceremony of, 54–67; taboos, 71; 85.

Beaver Tepee, 264.

Begging dance, 291.

Behind-the-Ears, 276.

Belly River, 179.

Big Eyes, gives tepee to author, 261.

Big-Horn Sheep. See Sheep.

Big Moon, 284.

Big Rock Tepee, 260.

Big Spring, 290.

Big Stripe Tepee, 260, 264.

Birch, canoe, 9.

Bird, wife of Brings-Down-the-Sun, 189, 191.

Black Buffalo Tepee, 262.

Blackfoot, country, 14; our first sight of the camp, 20.

Blackfoot Glacier, 14.

Blackfoot Mountain, 14.

Black Snake Man, former head chief, 87, 89.

Black Snake Woman, a wife of the head chief, 90.

Black Weasel, dance leader, 276.

Blizzard, 16, 130–32, 137, 139, 149.

Blood Indians, 27; head men of, 30; 179, 184, 193.

Bluebells, 156, 161, 195.

Bluebird, mountain, 258.

Booth, in dancing-lodge, 311.

Botanical collection, 159, 179, 319–26.

Boundary Creek, 29.

Boys, training of, 74.

Brave Dog Society, 252, 268, 284, 298, 299, 301, 314.

Braves, Society, 219–22.

Brings-Down-the-Sun, medicine man, 165, 179, 188; camp of, 191, 201; contest with Bull Plume, 206–09; tells about his father, 210–18; his children, 217; tells about Men’s Societies, 219–25; about the birds and the stars, 226–39; farewell of, 240.

Buffalo Dance, 66.

Buffalo hunt, 155.

Buffalo Rock Bundle, 75.

Buffalo Song, 294.

Bull Child, medicine man, 22, 243, 248, 310, 311.

Bull Plume, medicine man, 194, 206–09.

Bull Shoe, race-horse, 279.

Bunched Stars. See Pleiades.

Burial customs, 155, 166, 272, 273.

Buttercup, snow, 161.

Camas, 20, 21, 160, 200, 325.

Canada, 27, 119, 165, 170.

Capella, 143.

Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, 319.

Catbird, 195.

Catches-Two-Horses, wife of the head chief, 22, 56, 58, 60, 87.

Caterpillars, tent, dance of, 186.

Cedar, creeping, 197.

Cedar, giant, 9.

Celebration song, 281.

Center Pole, 303, 304, 308, 309, 311.

Ceremonies, adoption by Mad Wolf, 35–41; Beaver Bundle, 56–67; Sun Dance, 88, 241; etc.; Medicine Pipe, 89, 90, 289–97; Bear Spear, 175; Crow Water, 201; tongues, 243–46; Otter Tepee, 259, 260; doctoring, 269–72; cutting hide, 306, 307; plants used for, 323.

Chalice Cup, 162.

Chastity of women, 82, 246, 307.

Cheering songs, 312.

Cheyenne scouts, 10.

Chief Mountain, 170, 214, 242.

Chinook Indians, 152.

Chinook wind, 151, 152.

Chipmunk, 125.

Chokecherry, 187, 195, 256, 324.

Circle camp, 247, 258, 259, 267, 304.

Clematis, 161.

Cleveland Mountain, 14.

Cleveland, President Grover, Preface.

Climate, 10.

Clown, 300.

Columbine, yellow, 20.

Comet, legend of, 92–99; 227.

Coming Running and family, 252.

Conjunction of planets, 239.

Conservation by North Piegans, 193.

Continental Divide, 10, 12, 14, 15, 163.

Cony, 164.

Cottonwood, 154, 156, 187, 193, 325.

Coup, 304, 307, 314.

Coyote, 150, 187, 254, 268.

Cradle song, 291.

Crane, 185; as pet, 254.

Crane Dance, 295.

Cream Antelope, 285.

Cree Indians, 10, 84, 180, 199, 251, 261.

Cross Guns, son of head chief, 85, 88.

Crow Indians, 182, 201, 251, 261, 266, 277.

Crow Tepee, 263.

Crow Water ceremony, 201.

Curlew, 185, 258.

Curly Bear, judge, 22, 244.

Custer, General, 4, 10.

Custer Massacre, 10.

Cutbank Pass, 106.

Cutbank River, home of the scout, 22; home of Mad Wolf, 68, 76; home of head chief, 85; home of White Grass, 92.

Cutbank Trail, 20.

Cutbank Valley, 92, 101, 107.

Cypress Hills, 89.

Dances, Beaver, 58–67; frontier, 119–22; sandpiper, 185; tent caterpillars, 186; grizzly bear, 220; mosquito, 222; kit fox, 225; grass, 274–77; horseback, 278; kissing, 280; Brave Dog Society, 286–88; begging, 291; Medicine Pipe, 294, 295; Weather Makers, 311–13.

Dancing lodge, 304, 310–16.

Dancing Pipe, 279, 280.

Deer hunt, Black-tail, 164.

Deer Tepee, 265.

Diseases, contagious, 36.

Divide Mountain, 167, 242.

Doctoring, 269–73, 291.

Dog, as food, 256.

Dog Dance, 65.

Dolly Varden trout, 12, 158.

Don’t Laugh Band, 251.

Double Runner, 37, 55, 244, 248, 304.

Dreams, 205, 271, 272.

Dutch oven, 105.

Dwarf People, 44.

Dye, 160, 322.

Eagle catching, 216.

Eagle Child, 24.

Eagle, golden, 124, 116.

Eagle Tepee, 265.

Eat-Before-Others Band, 251.

Eclipse of sun, 227.

Elk Dance, 306.

Elk Horn, herald, 274, 279, 284, 287, 292, 304.

Elk Song, 306.

Elk Tepee, 265.

Etiquette, 23, 30, 70, 71, 83.

Fairy rings, 179.

Fasting woman, 248, 250, 301, 306.

Father-in-law customs, 70, 81, 83.

Fat Melter Band, 251, 292.

Ferns, 9, 162.

Finch, purple, 159.

Fir, great silver, 9; Douglas, 161; alpine, 164.

First Strike, woman doctor, 268, 270.

Fishing, fly, 11, 158.

Flag, blue, 258.

Flathead Forest Reserve, Preface; 5.

Flathead Indians, 106, 162, 251.

Flathead River, 8.

Flathead Valley, 6, 8.

Flat Tail, 277, 285.

Fleabane, 184.

Flowers, 6, 20, 154, 156, 160, 161, 184, 187, 195, 248, 258, 325.

Forget-me-not, 154, 162, 163, 187.

Four Bears, medicine man, 32, 89, 313.

Fox, kit, 258.

Fox, red, 14.

Gaillardia, 156, 195, 248.

Gambling, 8, 133, 197, 279.

Games. See Amusements.

Geese, 124, 153.

Gemini, constellation, 142.

Geranium, 187.

Ghosts. See Spirits.

Ghost Lariat. See Clematis.

Ghost stories, 114–18, 134–35, 166, 168–69.

Girls, training of, 74, 82.

Gives-to-the-Sun, wife of Mad Wolf, 37, 55, 58, 74, 134, 242, 298, 305, 306, 314.

Glacier National Park, Preface.

Globeflower, Western, 161.

Goat, Rocky Mountain, 14; hunt, 124–28.

Going-to-the-Sun Mountain, 54.

Goldfinch, 195.

Good Luck Song, 295.

Good-Old-Man, myth, 136, 151.

Grass, blue-eyed, 258.

Grass Dancers, 274–77.

Grasshopper, Blood chief, 30.

Grasshoppers, 185.

Graves, Henry S., Preface.

Grease Melter Band, 212.

Great Dipper (Ursa Major), 118, 137, 204; legend of, 229–31.

Grizzly bear, story, 17; author’s experience with, 102–06; Medicine Grizzly, 106; 112; roping a grizzly, 121; 176, 186, 213, 217, 262; and Medicine Pipe, 290; dances, 220, 294.

Gros Ventre Indians, 91, 107, 199, 266.

Ground squirrel, black, 153.

Grosbeak, evening, 159.

Grouse, 11, 160.

Guide. See Siksikaíkoan.

Hail storm, 169.

Hair Parters. See Grass Dancers.

Hammock, baby, 189, 291.

Hard-Top-Knot Band, 251, 253.

Hare, crying, 129.

Hare, prairie, 258.

Heart Butte, 80.

Heather, 162.

Heavy Breast, story by, 17; 37, 55, 61, 248.

Heliotrope, 161.

Hemlock, 9.

Hollyhock, 184.

Horsemint, 160, 187, 321.

Horse race, 279.

Horses, character of Indian, 5, 13, 27, 100, 101.

Huckleberries, 102.

Hudson Bay Divide, 76, 146, 167, 170.

Humor, Indian, 31, 63, 87, 136, 199, 202, 205, 289, 292.

Husband, potential, 65.

Hyades, constellation, 143.

Hymn, tribal, 308, 309.

Indian, manners of, 30, 71; character, 111, 174.

Indian Mounted Police, 123, 146.

Inner Circle, 259.

Iron Shirt, former head chief, 212.

Jack rabbit, 109, 192.

Jackson Mountain, 14.

Jackson, William. See Siksikaíkoan.

Japanese Current, 152.

Jennings, O. E., 319.

Jester, 300.

Jupiter, legend about, 232–39.

Katoyísa, 25, 26, 109, 121, 122.

Killdeer, 185, 258.

Kingbird, 227.

Kinglet, golden-crown, 6.

Kinnekinnick, 45, 323.

Kissing dance, 280.

Kit Fox Society, 223.

Kutenai Indians, 8, 106.

Kutenai, saddle horse of author, 9, 12, 27, 36, 109, 124, 130, 144, 150, 181, 242.

Lady’s-slipper, 161.

Lance, sacred, 249, 278.

Larch, 6, 9.

Lark, horned, 157, 227, 258.

Laurel, swamp, 161.

Legends, of Beaver Bundle, 46–53; Smoking Star, 92–99; Snow Tepee, 136–38; of Old Man, 171–73; Bear Spear, 176–78; Bunched Stars, 228; Seven Stars, 229–31; Star Boy and Scarface, 232–39.

Lily, snow, 162, 163.

Limb catcher, 200.

Lion, Rocky Mountain, 151.

Little Creek, son-in-law of Mad Wolf, 68; character of, 70, 160; 74, 75, 109; stories by, 117, 162; 124, 129, 153, 158–64.

Little Dog, former head chief, 213.

Little Dog, war chief, 22, 89, 251, 277, 299.

Little Mountain, 210.

Little Owl and family, 253.

Little Plume, war chief, 22, 251, 278, 299.

Little Sister, star in Ursa Major, 231.

Loco weed, 156, 320.

Lodge poles, cutting of, 159.

Lone Chief, 290, 292–97.

Lone Dog, Sioux chief, 281.

Long Hair, 188, 226.

Longspur, chestnut-collared, 184.

Lookout Butte, 197.

Loon, 6.

Love medicine, 83, 136.

Love song, 78, 203, 204, 267.

Lupine, blue, 21.

Mad Indian, 111, 123; tragedy of, 144–48.

Mad Wolf (Siyeh), meeting with author, 22; adoption by, 35; personality, 37; prayers by, 38–41; tells about the past, 42; legend of Beaver Bundle, 46–53; gives Beaver Ceremony, 54–67; his summer camp, 68–76; home, 76–79; story by, 71; experience with ghost, 135; tells legend of Snow Tepee, 136–38; sun dance of, 242, 316; his farewell, 315.

Mad Wolf Mountain. See Siyeh Mountain.

Magpie, 216, 254.

Mandan Indians, 251.

Man-in-the-Moon, 5.

Marias River, 72, 73.

Marmot, hoary, 14, 125, 164.

Marriage customs, 80–84, 87.

Materia medica, 319–23.

Meadowlark, western, 23, 185, 227, 242, 248.

Meals, time of, 199.

Meat, preparation of, 72, 149, 156, 167, 200, 256.

Medicinal plants, 73, 159, 160, 179, 226, 271, 319–23.

Medicine Bull, weather dancer, 310–12.

Medicine Grizzly, story of, 106–08.

Medicine Owl, 263.

Medicine Pipe, 71, 89, 90, 193, 213, 281, 290, 292–97, 315.

Medicine Robe, 217, 310.

Medicine Weasel, 248, 261.

Men, work of, 70.

Meteor, 239.

Mexico, 86, 210.

Mice, 129.

Middle Calf, 37, 55, 61, 107, 244, 248, 305.

Miles, General, 4, 10.

Milk River, 73.

Milky way, 238.

Missionary meeting, 24.

Mistake Morning Star, 238, 301.

Monkey flower, 163.

Moons, calendar of, 228.

Mormons, 29.

Morning Eagle, 253, 300.

Morning Plume, 37, 244, 248, 291, 302.

Morning Star, 232–39.

Mosquito Society, 222, 314.

Mother-in-law customs, 32, 70, 83, 201.

Mother-in-law of scout, 32.

Mountain Chief, 276, 285, 312.

Mountain Sheep Tepee, 265.

Mourning customs, 64, 181, 272, 273.

Mourning song, 314.

Music, Indian, 21, 78, 203, 275, 278, 280–83, 308.

Natosin, chief from the north, 254.

Nez Percé, Indians, 163, 251.

Night Gun, 275, 280.

Nighthawk, 159.

Night singers, 267, 268, 283.

Night song, 202, 203, 283.

Nínake, 25, 109, 121.

Nitana, 109; ghost story by, 114–116, 153, 158, 175, 186, 189.

Northern Pacific Railway, 119.

North Piegan Indians, 184.

North Trail, Old, 166, 170, 210.

Nor’wester, 150.

North-West Mounted Police, 30, 147, 165, 213.

Old Man (Napi), 171, 187.

Old Man’s Gambling Place, 187.

Old Man’s River, 165.

Old Man’s Sliding Place, 187.

Old Man Stories, 171.

Old Person, visit to Sand Hills, 115.

One Spot, Blood Indian, 180, 181.

Onesta, 109, 153, 155, 158, 168; character of, 174; songs by, 185, 186, 188, 191, 199–208.

Orchid, 20.

Oregon grape, 160, 321.

Orion, constellation, 142.

Otter Tepee, 259, 260.

Ouzel, water, 10, 12.

Oven bird, 3.

Owl, superstitions, 16, 114–18.

Pack horses, characteristics of, 5, 13, 100, 101.

Paint-brush, Indian, 156, 195.

Painted-cup, 258.

Painted tepees, 68, 136–38, 201, 258–66.

Parade, tribal, 299, 300.

Parfleche, 69, 255.

Parsnip, cow, 111, 160, 200, 306, 320, 324.

Pemmican, 156, 199, 256.

Pend d’Oreille Indians, 251.

Perfumes, 77, 179, 325.

Pets, 254, 268, 269.

Phacelia, 156.

Photographing, Preface; mountains, 104; snow scenes, 128, 160; ceremonies, 245, 259; a doctor and his patient, 269; Medicine Pipe ceremony, 292.

Picture writing, 149, 207, 212, 258–66, 275, 300, 301, 310, 311.

Pinchot, Gifford, Preface.

Pine, yellow, 6; white, 9, 10; lodge-pole, 161; limber, 161.

Pine Tree Tepee of author, 261.

Pipsissewa, 160, 323.

Pleiades, constellation, 5, 143; legend of, 228.

Polygamy, 82, 83.

Poplar, western balsam, 154, 156, 184, 193, 325.

Porcupine, 41.

Porcupine Hills, 186, 197, 217.

Prairie chicken, 185.

Prayers, to bear, 19; by Mad Wolf, 38–41; to Water Spirits, 46; to beaver, 60; by White Grass, 61; by head chief, 62; by a woman, 88; by scout, 150; before eating, 180, 202; by Brings-Down-the-Sun, 240; to Sun, 243; by woman doctor, 270; by man doctor, 272; by head chief, 303.

President of United States, 277, 315.

Primrose, 184.

Ptarmigan, willow, 129.

Puccoon, narrow-leaved, 175, 187, 323.

Rabbit, snowshoe, 129, 153.

Rainbow, 151, 227, 311.

Rainbow Tepee, 264.

Ranch, Lone Wolf, 25, 120, 121; of scout, 22–27, 32, 139–52; of Mad Wolf, 76–79; of head chief, 85–91; of White Grass, 92.

Raspberries, 102.

Rattler, doctor, 67, 268–72.

Raven, 57, 227.

Records, on skins, 149, 207, 212; of war, 265, 266, 300.

Red Fox, 282, 283, 300.

Red Rover, dog, 144.

Religion, Blackfoot, 16, 19, 192, 241, 242.

Reno’s command, 10.

Riding song, 282.

Riel Rebellion, 10.

Rising Wolf Mountain, 54.

Robe, Medicine, 217, 310.

Robin, 258.

Rocky Mountains, 5, 19, 28, 54, 124, 130, 141, 150, 152, 156, 170, 258, 316.

Running Crane, 22, 251, 277, 316.

Running Fisher, 255.

Running Rabbit, 134, 256.

Running Wolf, 202, 210.

St. Mary River, 170, 179, 214.

Salmo clarkii, 12.

Sand Hills, 115, 134, 272.

Sandpiper, spotted, 227, 258.

Sandpiper Dance, 185.

Sarcee Indians, 251.

Saskatchewan River, 86.

Scalp Dance, 91, 107.

Scarface, legend, 236–39; 302, 309.

Scout. See Siksikaí-koan.

Service berry, 180, 195, 323.

Seven Stars. See Great Dipper.

Sham battle, 277, 278, 312, 313.

Sheep, Rocky Mountain, 16; hunt, 111–14, 164.

Sherman, General W. T., report of, 11.

Shield, sacred, 249, 278.

Shooting stars, 21, 156, 161.

Shoots-in-the-Air, judge, 22.

Short Robe, chief of Brave Dogs, 284, 286, 288.

Sign language, 9, 56, 57, 180, 294.

Siksikaí-koan (William Jackson), character and life, 4, 10, 11, 14, 102; accident to, 20; home of, 22–27, 32, 149–52.

Sioux Indians, 10, 85, 251, 280.

Sioux songs, 281, 282.

Sirius, 142.

Siyeh. See Mad Wolf.

Siyeh (Mad Wolf) Mountain, 14.

Skunk, 204.

Skunk Band, 251.

Skunk Song, 196.

Skylark, Missouri, 157.

Slim, cowboy, 119–23.

Small Otter, grandson of Mad Wolf, 74, 243.

Smallpox, 212, 213.

Small Robe Band, 251.

Smoking Star, legend, 92.

Snake Indians, 51, 212.

Snake Tepee, 263.

Snow banners, 150.

Snowberry, shrub, 258.

Snow Tepee, of Mad Wolf, 68; taboos of, 71; legend of, 136–38; decorations, 262, 263.

Societies, men’s, 219–25, 274–77, 284–88, 314.

Songs, Indian, 21, 78; to Sun, 38; gambling, 133; of Sandpiper Dance, 185; of Tent Caterpillar Dance, 186; skunk, 196; night, 203; love, 203; contest with songs, 202–04; mosquito, 222; dance, 275; victory, 278; of kissing dance, 280; celebration, 281; wolf, 281; riding, 282; sacred, 301–03; tribal hymn, 308, 309.

Sparrow, Gambel, 160.

Sparrow, lark, 154, 156.

Sparrow, white-crowned, 23, 159, 195.

Speeches, by Mountain Chief, 276, 312; by Running Crane, 277; Bear Chief, 307; Mad Wolf, 315, 316.

Spirits, belief in, 16, 17, 114–18, 134–35, 166, 168, 169, 217, 272.

Spirit world. See Sand Hills.

Spotted Eagle, medicine man, character of, 170; story by, 171–73, 298, 299, 310–14.

Spruce, Engelmann, 161.

Star Boy, legend, 232–36.

Stories, about a bear, 17; The Warrior who ate his Foot, 33; by Mad Wolf, 71; The Medicine Grizzly, 106; ghosts, 168–69, 114–18, 134–35; of Mad Indian, 144–48; buffalo hunt, 155; of Swift Eagle, 162; about the past, 167; Old Man and the Squirrels, 171–73; Red Head, 182; by Brings-Down-the-Sun, 210–18; war, 311, 312.

Strawberries, 23, 195.

Strikes-on-Both-Sides, daughter of Mad Wolf, 38, 54; dance by, 66, 68, 69, 75; favorite of her father, 77; ghost stories by, 114, 134, 153, 226, 253, 291.

Stuyimi, death of, 268–73.

Suicide, 314.

Sun, the Great Power, 16, 241.

Sun Dance, 21, 82, 88, 192, 217, 241–316.

Sun Dance Bundle, 244.

Sun dogs, 130, 150, 227, 301, 311.

Sunflowers, 21, 258.

Sun Pole, 304, 305, 308, 309, 311.

Sun River, 153.

Swan Dance, 295.

Swans, 124.

Swans, whistling, 153.

Swallows, 185.

Sweat lodge, 77, 298, 299.

Sweet grass, 77, 179, 319, 325.

Sweet Grass Hills, 54, 72, 258.

Taboos, of Beaver Bundle, 45, 71; of Snow Tepee, 71, 263; Thunder Tepee, 204, 261; of Medicine Pipe, 214, 296, 297; Buffalo Tepees, 262.

Tanning skins, 72, 167, 255.

Taurus, constellation, 143.

Tears-in-Her-Eyes, niece of Mad Wolf, 253, 291.

Temperature, winter, 140, 142; summer, 185.

Terry, General, 10.

Thimbleberry, 101.

Thrush, olive-backed, 6; willow, 23, 157, 159, 242.

Thunder, 194, 215, 227, 297, 310.

Thunder Bird, 16, 68, 200, 263, 264, 295.

Thunder Chief, head man of the Bloods, 30.

Thunder Dance, 295.

Thunder Pipe, 214–16.

Thunder Tepee, 201; taboos of, 202, 204, 264.

Timber-line, 103, 161.

Tobacco, 44, 160, 323.

Tongues, sacred, 244–46, 307, 308, 314.

Torture, self, 314.

Toys, children’s, 74, 196, 226, 254.

Trails, Indian, 20, 25, 100, 111, 129, 166, 170, 185, 210.

Traveling Song, 282.

Traveling-tepee of author, 68; decorations of, 261, 262.

Triple Divide Mountain, 14.

Trout, 11, 158.

Turnip, prairie, 160, 200, 324.

Twin flower, 6.

Two-Bear-Woman, mother-in-law of scout, 32.

Two Medicine River, 134, 154.

Two Guns, son of White Calf, 85, 135, 136.

Underground spirits, 17, 40, 180, 308.

United States Government, 85, 87, 119.

Vegetables, wild, 156, 160, 200, 323.

Venus, morning star, 232, 239.

Vermin, 199.

Vetch, 258, 324.

Violets, 154, 195.

Vows, by men, 88, 208, 255, 260, 313.

Vows, by women, 82, 88, 242, 243, 245, 259, 307.

Warbler, Macgillivray, 6.

Warbler, myrtle, 6.

War Bridle, sacred, 278.

War horse, 300, 312.

War song, 203, 278.

War Tepee, 256, 265, 266.

Water Monster Tepee, 264.

Weather Dancers, 310–13.

Weather Makers, 301.

Wheel game, 197.

Whiskey, 36.

Whistling-All-Night, 192.

White Antelope, wife of scout, 22, 32.

White Calf, the head chief, 22, 43, 55, 56; dance by, 61; prayers by, 62, 303; wives of, 83; home of, 85; character, 85, 244, 298, 305, 308, 309.

White Grass, medicine man, 22, 55, 58; prayer by, 61; author painted by, 62; character, 92, 243, 248, 261, 279.

White Weasel Moccasin, Indian name of author, 61; in Buffalo Dance, 66, 136, 191, 194, 206.

Willow Creek, 247, 250.

Wind-flower, 162, 320.

Wind Maker, 16.

Winter-counts, 212.

Winter Tepee. See Snow Tepee.

Wipes-His-Eyes, 260.

Wives, number of, 82; distant, 83.

Wolf Eagle, 276.

Wolf Plume, 22, 313.

Wolf Song, 281.

Wolf Tail, son of head chief, 85, 260.

Wolf Trail. See Milky way.

Wolverine, 129, 160.

Wolves, gray, 150, 210.

Women, industries of, 200, 255, 256; chastity of, 82, 246, 307; vows by, 82, 242, 243, 245, 307.

Woodcraft, 5.

Woodpecker, 226.

Worm People Band, 251.

Wren, winter, 6.

Yellow Bird, relative of scout, 24–31, 109–14, 121, 139–46.

Yellow Buffalo Tepee, 262.

Yellow Owl, 84.

Yellowstone River, 87, 211, 213.

Yellow-throat, Western, 159, 195, 258.