INDEX.
529
- Nemitsakouat, or Bois Brule River, 410
- Nepigon, 412, 417, 426, 431
- Nepissings, 403
- New York City, 18
- New York colonial documents quoted, 32, 247
- Niagara, 194
- Niagara surrendered by French, 438
- Niagara, straits of, 214, 216
- Nicollet, Jean, early explorer, 400, 423, 428
- Nicollet, Jean N., U.S. Geologist, quoted, 32, 185, 257, 308, 342, 357, 482, 483
- Nicollet, Margaret, 428
- Nig-gig (the Otter), Ojibway warrior, 325
- No-din (Ojibway chief), 335
- No-ka (or Bear Totem), 49
- No-ka, Ojibway chief, 235, 236, 266
- Nolin, Augustin, 381, 460
- Nonen, wife of Wa-wa-tam, 214
- Northern Ojibways, language of, 85; less warlike than others, 86
- Northwest County of Montreal, 181, 288, 290, 291, 294, 321, 349, 350, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 450, 452, 461
- Noyelle, deputy at Mackinaw, 432
- Nub-o-beence (Little Broth), 389
- Nug-an-ash, Ojibway warrior, 361
- Nug-aun-ub (Sitting-ahead), Ojibway chief, 50, 130
- Numakagun River, 243, 300, 326
- Oakes, Charles H., trader, 384
- Oak Grove band, Dakotas, 156
- Oak Point, 326
- Ochunkraw. See Winnebagoes.
- O-dah-waug. See Ottaways.
- Odish-quag-um-eeg, 33
- Odjibwa, how pronounced, 35
- Odugameeg. See Odugamies.
- Odugamies (Foxes), 32, 33, 95, 148, 152, 154, 162, 176, 180, 190, 191, 193, 242, 244, 245, 246, 247, 250, 331, 405
- Oge-mah-mi-jew (Chief's Mountain), 343
- Ogilvys, fur traders, 380
- Ohio River, 32
- Ojibway, supposed meaning, 36, 398; how correctly spelled, 37; etymology of the name, 82; how derived, 107; name usually spelled "Chippewa," 37
- Ojibways, the: the principal branch of the Algic race, 31; the origin of, 54, 55, 61; their chronology, 90; cause of emigration from the Atlantic, 82; where located, 37; minor divisions into bands, 38, 39, 83; their position, numbers, etc. (1851), 35; the northern division, language, etc., 85; general account of (in 1851), 29; total population 20,000, 38; their domestic implements, 97; did not work copper mines, 99; found a town on La Pointe Inland, 96; perpetual fire kept up there, 99; lived there by fishing, 97; their dispersion from La Pointe, 108, 110, 121; prevented from joining Pontiac, 211; loyal to the U.S. in 1812, 368; had firearms prior to the Dakotas, 120; make peace truces with the Dakotas, 267; are better fighters in the forest than on prairie, 312; their changing habits, 25; did they practise cannibalism, 109; partial to the French people, 133, 134; learned custom of torture from the Foxes, 106; inhabit a country of lakes, rivers, and forests, 39; their totemic system, 34; burial rites of, 72; customs of mourning, 264; have clear idea of creator, 63; their religious customs, 100; belief in future state, 72; their morals once purer than now, 101; their final extinction inevitable, 72; early mention of, 398; at Chagouamigon Bay, 403; defeat Iroquois at Lake Superior, 404; in 1670 at Sault Ste. Marie, 406; in council with St. Lusson, 408; settle at Chagouamigon, 408, 420; at peace in 1679 with Sioux, 410; executed for killing Frenchmen, 411; confer with Frontenac, 420; addressed by Gov, Longeuil, 427; census of, A.D. 1736, 427; at Ticonderoga, 432; at Niagara, 438; capture Mackinaw, 439; confer with Sir W. Johnson, 440; with Gen. Bradstreet, 441; visit to Johnson Hall, 444; attack Sioux A.D. 1766, 445; pillagers, 446;
