President, D. meets, 66,
Potawatomi Indians, in 1838, 172;
North Platte, council 1868, 900
Yankton chief, 826, 865, 868, 693 in 1846, 611; in 1847, 1087; in
870, 884, 1282, 1526 Pierre, le Gaucher, 29, 3o, 198, 216, 1858, 720, 1194; In 1870, 928
North Sea, 4o9 1059, 290 legends, 382, 1078
Pandosy, Father, 748
O Papin, Bellevue, 612 Pierre's Hole, 223, 228 mission at Council Bluffs, 14, 157,
O'Connell, Daniel, seen by D., 45, Papillon river, 612 Pilchimo, Flathead, 292, 314, 320 258, 1463
Paraguay, ancient system, 283, 306, Piney Fork, 668 on Sugar Creek, Kan., 517,
1467 317, 328, 330, 366, 469. 917
O'Connor, J. C., Sioux agent, let Paris, visits, 327, Pipestone Quarry, 1358 689, 928, 1548
695, Plain of Prayer, 383 Powder river, 669, gio
702
ters to, 1545, 1546 Parker, Gen. E. S., Peace Commis Plains, western, sketch, 1347 Prairie de la Messe, 262
Prairie dogs, 205, 622, 872,
Ode to Rocky Mountains, 1353 sioner, Commissioner of Indian Platte river, name, 203, 275, 1351 1395
Ogallalas, " Affairs, 879, 1536 navigation, 1351 Presents to Indians, 682, 687, goo
see also Sioux," 629,
678, 722, 855 letters to, 1292, 1296, 1299, 1333. scenery, 203, 686, 724, 1349, 1383 Priest lake and river, 550
Peter Skeen, 384, 389, 485 incidents of travel, 207, 308, 309, Princess, German-Indian, 891
Ogden, 1334, 1538
O'Gorman, Bishop, Omaha, 818 Parker, ` 311, 612, 644, 686, 721 Protestant missions and clergy, 26,
Iconoclast," Rev. Samuel,
Okinagan Indians, 381, 383, 481, 27, 267, 380 Pleasonton, Gen. Alfred, friend123, 152, 154, 165, 167, 230, 279,
482, 731, 1005 Parmentier, Mrs. S., 445, 470, 562, ship, 73 284, 286, 296, 318, 339, 347, 379,
letters to, 966, 1521 388, 449, 453, 454, 456, 559, 677.
lake, 383 1192 from, 1570, 1571, 1572, 1573, 8oi, 991, 1211, 1285, 1305, 1316,
Old Man, Napi, Wizakeschak, Patagonia, 419 1416,
Blackfeet creator, 525 Patakojec, Potawatomi chief, 611, 1574, 1575, 1577, 158o, 1582 1320, 1419, 1445, 1454,
Omaha (City), 774, 818, 899 1078 Plymouth, England, 411 1457, 1551
" Point, Rev. Nicholas, S. J., at Provencher, Bishop, 652
antiquities, 1533, 1534 Paul, Flathead chief, see Big Westport, 1840, 258 Prudhomme, Gabriel, 226, :264, 292,
Indians, 1838, 165, 166, 172; 1839, Face "
188, 191; 1848, 628, 1188; 1851, of Wurtemberg, Prince, 685 on 1841 Journey, 278, 28o, 282, 575, 583
3o6, Pueblo Indians, D. invited to, 1452,
651 Pavilion river, 561 301, 311
Ontario, voyage, 1866, 846, 1062 Pawnees in 1838, 165; 1841, 287 work among Flatheads, 240, 330, 1524
Pumpkin Buttes, 669
Opossums, 1395 Council, 1851, 687 337, 354
Oregon City, 453, 476, 553 a fight, 1858, 721 on buffalo hunt, 36o, 390, 391 Purcell, Bishop, letter from, 1561
Oregon, opinion of, 1852, 1476 chapter on, 974 at Sacred Heart, 377, 464, 471, Purgatory, souls in, obtain clear
sky,
Question, 129, 438, 485, 486, 1202, notes, 204, 285, 517, 651, 1188, 565, 1147 712
to Blackfeet, 567, 6oo, 773, 949,
156o 1381 1236 Q
river (for Columbia), 482 Peace river, 516, 517, 518, 534, 538, drawings,
Territory, settlement and religi. 543 39
mention, Quille or Quilax, Mary, Flathead
510, 590
ous progress, 476 Peacemaker, D.'s work as, 190, 257, Pointed Arrow creek, gold heroine, 578
on
Trail, Great, 671, 1312, 1476 575, 599, 6o6, 630, 743, 763, 766, 1522 R
" "
war, Indian, 1858, see Yakima 812, 859, 874, 967 Pointed Heart Indians, see "
Osage Indians, 651, 720 Pembina river, 534 Cceur
d'AY:nes " Railroads, dangers of, 1853, 7o8
Osier Indians, see " Pend d'Orielle, Pondera, Indians, Poisoning among Indians, 172, 187, Rankin, Col., Fort Buford, meer
Minnetarees," "
651 see also Kalispels," in 184o, 1089, 1095, 1113, 1134, schaum for, 1528
Otoe Indians in 1838, 154, 162, 176 220, 263; 1841, 318, 342, 357 Pomme 1140
blanche, 906 Rapids of Columbia, Great, 547
notes, 517, 617, 688, 1o91, 1188 notes, 277, 365, 572, 573, 765, 967, 253,
Ponca Indians, 625, 651, 1188 Rattlesnakes, 21o, 622, 663, 1391
Owen, Major, Flathead agent, 992, 1271 Ponderas, see "
1859, 967 Pend d'Oreille lake, 349, 550 Pend d'Oreilles " Ravalli, Rev. Anthony, S. J., 84,
"
Poor Devil Indians, see 317, 408, 476, 483, 760, 796,
Owl (Head) Buttes, 659, 662 traverse, 356 gers," Dig
1032 1240, 1246, 1274, 1501
P Perkins, Rev. H. K. W., 455, 559 Q) Pope Gregory XVI, 45, 87, 1341 Ravoux, Bishop, 790, 1192
Persecution, religious. 131, 705, 7o6,
935, 1448, 1451 Pius IX, 628, 634, 836 Record Rock on Heart river, 1,378
Pacific ocean, 419, 428, 807 Peru, visit to, 428
Poplar river, 604, 909 Red Buttes, Wyoming, 213, 670
Pah-Utes, 989 Porcupines, 503, 509, 511, 512 Red Cloud, Sioux chief, goo, 908
Palladino, quoted, Peter, Iroquois, 293, 1247
23, 28, 39, 45,
Pend d'Oreille chief, see " Porcupine creek, 604 Red Deer river, 514
Cha
261, 267, 316, 36o, 386, 388, 444, lax " Portage mountains, 492 Red Fish, Ogallala chief, and fam
river, Great, 544, 546 ily, 630, 791, 809, 835
474, 510, 592 Petrifactions, 244, 659, 669, 907 Porteur Indians, see "
Carrier," 539 Red river, 516, 520
Paloos Indians, 455, 561, 731, 745, Picotte, Honore, 607, 6og Portland, Oregon, 1863, 805 Red Rock lake, 229, 231
748, 991 Piegans, see also "Blackfeet;' 587,
Portneuf river, 303
Réduction, the term, 306
Panama, Isthmus, 733, 762, 807 593, 595, 790, 949