New Ulm, first attack on by Sioux, 201; battle of, 209. Nicollet, Jean, at Green Bay (1634), 6; locates Lake Michigan, 6. Nicollet, Joseph N., confirms work of Schoolcraft and Allen, 77; discovers the “infant Mississippi,” 78. Nicols, John, member of special board of regents, 259; member of state commission on special state railroad bonds, 326. Ninth Minnesota Infantry, at Nashville, 244. Nix, Capt. Jacob, commands defense of New Ulm, first attack, 201. Normal schools, establishment, 257. Northern Securities Company, organized, 361; dissolution of, 362. Northfield murders (1876), 315. Northrop, Cyrus, president of University of Minnesota, 337. Northwest Company, organization and policy, 39; posts of, 39. Norton, Daniel A., elected United States senator, 252; death, 292. Official year fixed by constitutional amendment, 345. Olmstead, David, mentioned, 110. Other Day, John, rescues whites at upper agency, 201. Otis, George L., defeated by Austin for governor, 267. Ozawindib, Schoolcraft’s Chippeway guide, 76. Panic of 1857, 142; of 1873, 288. Parker, Ely F., forbids issue of Chippeway half-breed scrip, 114. Parrant, Pierre, mentioned, 82. Peck, Louis, discovers cause of mill explosion, 324. Pembina, French and half breed town, 84; treaty of, 112. Perrot, Nicholas, at convocation of 1671, 15; builds Fort St. Antoine, 22; proclamation, 22. Phelps, William F., organizes Winona Normal School, 257. Phelps, William W., seated as representative from Minnesota, 154. Picard du Gay, a title of Auguelle, companion of Accault, 18. Pinchon, trades on Minnesota River, 32. Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, personal appearance, 47; expedition, 47; treaty with the Sioux, 48; at upper sources of Mississippi, 50; asserts dominion of United States, 51. Pillager band of Chippeways, outbreak of, 351; suffer injustice, 352. Pillsbury, C. A., heads relief committee, 350. Pillsbury, John S., becomes regent of university, 259; characteristics, 304; governor for three terms, 304; advises farmers how to fight “hoppers,” 305; visits devastated counties, 305; appoints day of fasting and prayer for “hoppers,” 306; praises operation of public examiner law, 314; urges payment of “dishonored bonds,” 330; regent for life, 332; death, 332. Pine on the St. Croix, 79. Pine forests, exhaustion of, 357. Pine land operations, _see_ Chippeway half-breed scrip, Sioux half-breed scrip. Plympton, Major, mentioned, 128. Pokegama mission broken up, 65. Pond brothers, first missionaries to Sioux, 65; build on Lake Calhoun, 65; invent the Pond alphabet, 66. Pope, General John, takes command of department of the northwest, 222; protests against the appointment of H. M. Rice as brigadier-general, 223; proposes to exterminate the Sioux, 226.