Hubbard, David: 108; letter to Governor Moore, 109-110; nominated as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 128; Pike hopes for coöperation, 141; receives instructions from Walker, 142-143; ill-health, 143, _footnote_; writes to John Ross, 144-145; reply of John Ross to, 146-147; instructed not to offer statehood, 161; advice to Crawford, 308; advises economy, 315 Hudson, George: 77, 80, _footnote_; declares Choctaw Nation "free and independent," 156; dealings with Pike, 196; proclamation, 196, 210 Humboldt: 243, _footnote_, 247 Humphreys, John J: 185, 218, _footnote_ Hunter, David: 248, 249, and _footnote_, 250, 251, 260, 266, 270, 275, 276, 312 Hyams, S. M: 155 Illinois: tribes from, 19 Indian adoption: 169 Indian camp: Lane plans establishment to prevent foraging into Kansas, 230; to be located in Cherokee Neutral Lands, 233; Cooper reaches, 254 Indian country: west of Arkansas and Missouri, 19; tribes within, indigenous and emigrant, 19 and _footnote_; population, 20-21; cut in two by Missouri Compromise line, 20; reservation system established, 21; listed with District of Columbia as strictly federal soil, 22; Fugitive Slave Law declared operative within, 22; presence of free negroes sometimes source of grave danger, 23, _footnote_; constantly beset by difficulties, 24, 27; likely to be greatly reduced in area by Manypenny treaties, 35; intruders attracted by supposed mines of precious metals, 35, _footnote_; rivalry among churches, 37; intruders to be removed by Agent Cowart, 46; practically no U. S. troops within, 52-53; northern tribes of less importance politically than southern, 62, _footnote_; slaveholding politicians work through halfbreeds to hold for South, 67; strategic importance of, appreciated by Arkansas, 108; military necessity of securing, 131; Pike describes sojourn in, 134 _et seq._, _footnote_; McCulloch to give military protection to, 148; McCulloch lays plans for taking possession of, 149; establishment of Confederate States courts promised by treaty with great tribes, 177; postal system to be maintained throughout, 180; U. S. War Department resolves upon expedition to, 270 Indian Home Guards: Pike in favor of Indians as, 132; no evidence that Indians wanted exclusively as, 148; individual Cherokees as, 149-151; disposition to keep Indians as, 212; Ross's plan defeated by McCulloch, 226-227; authorized by Cherokee Executive National Council, 226; Drew's regiment tendered to McCulloch, 227; Drew's regiment escorts Pike to Park Hill, 240 Indian Intercourse Law: difficulty in enforcing, 24, _footnote_; Greenwood's exposition of, 290; Leeper asks for copy, 315; Leeper reports troops necessary to enforce law within Leased District, 346