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INDEX
Q.
- Quakers, the, action of, in the French and Indian War, 356-358.
- Questions asked by Indians, 443.
R.
Ralle, Jesuit Father, death of, 309; his account of his missionary labors, 409, 410.
- Recollet Fathers, Missionaries, 299, 389, 390.
- Relations, the, between the white man and the Indian, historically traced in two parallel lines, 20, 21; the conflict between benefits and wrongs in the, 21, 32; what they might have been, 28-30; Lafitau's judgment of, 32; tendency of the development of, 32, 33; the question of permanent domain in. 32-35; first example in, of using natives against natives, set by Columbus, 47; readiness of conformity in, of the ways of the former to those of the latter, 151, 152; the enormous shedding of blood involved in, 269.
- "Repartimientos," system of, as employed by Columbus, 62.
- "Requisition," the, form of royal instructions under which the Spaniards pursued their Conquest of the aborigines, 59-61.
- Reservations for Indians, 84; number of acres held in, 244; suggestions as to modifications of, 578, 579; area of the Indian Territory, 579, — number of its inhabitants, 580; States which contain, 580; trespasses on, 581; necessity for contracting, 582.
- Reversionary tendency to Savagism, 605-008.
- Ribault, Jean, leader of the Huguenot colony in Florida, 270-273.
- Roman Church, the, its assumption as regards a so-called state of heathenism, 53 et seq., 224, 225; its claim to a heritage on the new continent, as set forth in the "Catholic World," 62; success of its Missions among the Indians greater than those of the Protestants, 80, 385; its aims and methods in Missions different from those of the Protestants, 80-83, — description of them, 474, 475, — their greater advantage, 379, 380; character and labors of some of its missionaries, 385-388, 411-416.
S.
- Sagaed, Father, 299.
- Sampson Occum, an Indian ordained to the Christian ministry, — his connection with the founding of Dartmouth College, 26.
- Savagism, the, latent in humanity, 127, 604; how easily it becomes patent in cases of Indianized white men, 363-366; the Indian's persistence in, and relish for, 594-596, 617-620; reversionary instincts to, some illustrations of, 604-608, 610-614.
- Scalps, Indian, bounties on, offered and paid by the colonial governments, 122, 123, 357.
- Scalping, practice of, 120, 121.
- Seals, the, adopted by the early colonies, — their quaint devices and legends, 30-32.
- Selkirk, Earl of, his Red River
- Settlement, and its fortunes, 495.
- Sepulveda, Dr. Juan, the leading opponent of Las Casas in his merciful view of a Avar of Conquest, 55-57.
- Snow-shoe, Indian the, an ingenious invention of the aborigines, — its form, materials, and use, 170-172.
- Spaniards, the, first discoverers of America and namers of its aborigines, 2, 3; their greed for gold the spur of their adventurous ambition, 10, 15, 68; characteristics of, as discoverers and conquerors, 50, 51, 334; their assumption, under papal authority, of exclusive ownership of the New World, 51, 52; make slaves of the Indians, 62, 63; maintained the right and the duty of Conquest, 64; their idea of a heathen and of the treatment due him, 65; their
