CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL DE, his birth, 104; takes part in the Religious Wars in France, 104; sails to the West Indies, 104; suggests a Panama Canal, 105; sails for Canada, 105; conceives a plan of colonization, 105; makes a settlement at mouth of St. Croix River, 107; cruel winter, 108; visits and names Mt. Desert, 108; explores New England coast, 108; welcomed by natives in Plymouth Harbor, 109; trouble with Indians at Nausett, 110; transfers settlement to Port Royal, 110; second voyage to New France, 119; seeks sea-route to China, 119; explores the St. Lawrence, 120; seeks to establish stronghold on the inland waters, 120; eager to promote conversion of the Indians, 120; overcomes resistance of Basques to fur-trade monopoly, 123; quells mutiny of his men, 124; great suffering in first winter at Quebec, 124; goes with war-party of Algonquins into Iroquois country, 125; hostile encounter on Lake Champlain, 128; disastrous results of his success, 130; his second fight with Iroquois, 131; founds Montreal, 133; second raid into Iroquois country, 133, names Lake Huron, 134; Iroquois palisaded town, 136; his unsuccessful attack on, 137; wounded, 138; lost in the woods, 140; returns to Quebec, 142; a prisoner at London, 143; dies, 143. CHARLEVOIX, FATHER, sent out to explore route to Pacific, 314. CHATHAM HARBOR, scene of Champlain's fight with Indians, 111. CHICAGO, La Salle near the site of, 236. CHICKASAWS, a branch of the Maskoki family, 181; hostile to the French, 253, note. CHICORA, native name of coast region of South Carolina, 69. CHIEFS, INDIAN, how chosen, 34. CHIPPEWAYS, an Algonquin tribe, 7. CHOCTAWS, a Maskoki tribe, 9, who sided with the French, 253, note. CHRISTINOS, or Crees, an Indian tribe on Lake Superior, 210. CLAN, a group of families of common blood, 20. COLIGNY, ADMIRAL, sends a second expedition to Florida, 77. COLUMBIA AND SACRAMENTO VALLEYS, Indians inhabiting, lowest specimens of the race, 10. COMANCHES, Indian tribe of Shoshonee stock, 10; visited by La Salle, 269; their fine horsemanship, 270; jockeying, 270, note. CONESTOGAS, a Huron-Iroquois tribe, 9. COPPER, in large quantities, seen by Radisson, 207. COROAS, Indian tribe on the Lower Mississippi, attack La Salle, 256. COUNCIL, An Indian, how conducted, 32. COUREURS DE BOIS, their origin and influence, 114; their mode of life, 189. COUTURE, a companion of Father Jogues, 156. CREEKS, a Maskoki tribe, 9. DAGONOWEDA, a sachem of the Onondagas, who proposed union, 17. DAKOTA, or SIOUX, the, a native stock; its range, 10. DANIEL, FATHER, an early French missionary, 152. DAVOST, FATHER, an early French missionary, 152. DES PLAINES RIVER, route used by Joliet and Marquette in returning, 183; followed by La Salle, 245. DISTRIBUTION of various Indian tribal families, 7. DIVINATION by Indian sorcerer, 126. DU GAY, a companion of Father Hennepin in exploration, 293.