Indian Cosmogony -- Traditions of Origin -- Identity of Religious Notions -- Adoration of the Sun -- Shawnee Faith -- Anecdote of Tecumseh -- Legendary Traditions -- Missionaries, and Success of the Catholics -- The Indian's Heaven -- Burial Customs -- Ancient Accounts -- Depositing the Dead on Scaffolds -- Superstition and Witchcraft -- Indian Philosophy -- Polygamy and other Matrimonial Affairs -- Abhorrence of Incest -- Difference in Character -- Indian Hospitality -- Traits of the Ancient Asiatics -- Names -- Relationship of Different Tribes -- Dreadful Decrease of the Indians, 283 CHAPTER XXIX {XIII of Vol. II} THE FRONTIER INDIANS Causes of Removal West -- Annuities, etc. -- Dissatisfaction of the Indians -- Their Melioration by the Change -- Superiority of their present Location -- Lands granted to them -- Improvements, Agriculture, etc. -- Their Slaves -- Manufactures -- Style of Living, Dress, etc. -- Literary Opportunities and Improvements -- Choctaw Academy -- Harpies and Frauds -- Games -- Systems of Government -- Polygamy -- Ancient Laws and Customs -- Intemperance -- Preventive Measures -- A Choctaw Enactment -- Marriage and Funeral Customs of the Choctaws -- The Creeks -- Their Summary Executions -- Mourning -- Indian Titles -- The Northern Tribes -- Census of the Frontier Nations, 299 CHAPTER XXX {XIV of Vol. II} INDIANS OF THE PRAIRIES System of Chiefs -- Mode of Warfare -- War-Council -- The Scalp-dance -- The Calumet or Pipe of Peace -- Treaties -- Public News-criers -- Arms of the Indians -- Bow and Arrows, etc. -- Hunting -- Dancing -- Language of Signs -- Telegraphs -- Wigwams or Lodges -- Pack-dogs -- Costumes -- Painting, Tattooing, etc. -- Indian Dandies -- Manufactures, and Dressing the Buffalo Rug -- Indian Diet, Fasting, etc. -- Primitive Thomsonians -- Their domestic Animals, the Dog and the Horse -- Wampum -- Their Chronology, 318 CHAPTER XXXI {XV of Vol. II} INDIANS OF THE PRAIRIES Intermediate Tribes -- Their Wigwams and their Hunting Excursions -- Dress and Cut of their Hair -- The Pawnees -- The Osages -- Their Roguery -- Matrimonial Customs -- Accomplished Mourners -- Their Superstitions -- The Indian Figure -- The 'Pawnee Picts' -- Wild Tribes -- Census -- The Comanches -- Their Range -- Their Sobriety -- Their Chiefs, etc. -- Female Chastity -- Comanche Marriage -- Costumes -- Horsemanship -- Comanche Warfare -- Predatory Forays -- Martial Ceremonies -- Treatment of Captives -- Burial and Religious Rites, 336 GLOSSARY. Containing such Spanish or Hispano-Mexican words as occur undefined in this work, or recur without definition after having been once translated 353