Secession: meeting held by white men and Choctaw half-bloods, 77; Presbyterian ordained missionaries favor, 79; Indian country threatened by advocates for, 80; Indian agents active for, 82-83 and _footnote_; mercenary motives in urging, 98, _footnote_; sentiment in Arkansas, 103 _et seq._; Pike offers arguments for, 133; secret organization of "Pins," 135, _footnote_; Stand Watie's party afraid to raise flag of, 140, _footnote_; large element within Cherokee Nation favors, 153; Griffith appointed commissioner to interview Indians in interests of, 184; Indian opponents absent from Pike's meeting at North Fork Village, 192; Jones most prominent of Choctaw advocates, 197; traces of influence of, 208; August mass-meeting of Cherokees ending in, 217 Second Seminole War: 20, _footnote_, 23, _footnote_, 164, _footnote_, 164-166 Secret Society: purpose of organization, 32, _footnote_; in Missouri, 35, _footnote_; among full-blooded Cherokees, 48; "the Pins," 86, _footnote_, 135, _footnote_, 216; among Cherokees for abolition purposes, 291, 293; Greenwood orders its dissolution, 292; Cowart's views upon schemes of, 294 Sells, Elijah: 186, _footnote_ Seminole Treaty: 157 and _footnote_; declares allegiance to C. S. A., 159, _footnote_; contains guarantee of autonomy, 159, _footnote_; contains promise of representation in Congress, 159, _footnote_; negotiated, 197-199, 197, _footnote_; considered by Provisional Congress, 206 Seminoles: from Florida, 20; removal in late fifties, 20, _footnote_; status of free negro among, 40; Presbyterians among, 40; manifest only slight interest in education, 40, _footnote_; given home in Creek country, 50; destitute, 57, _footnote_; representatives at inter-tribal conference, 71; letter to chief of, 80, _footnote_; condition reported by Carruth, 84, _footnote_; in council with Creeks, Cherokees, Quapaws, and Sacs, 94; negotiations of Pike with, 136, _footnote_; complaint against General Jesup, 164, _footnote_; Rector's transactions with, 182, _footnote_ Seneca and Shawnee Treaty: 157 and _footnote_ Senecas: 51, 64, 67; negotiations of Pike with, 136, _footnote_; from Cattaraugus Reservation, 227, _footnote_ Senecas and Shawnees: 51, 64, 67; negotiations of Pike with, 136, _footnote_, 237 Settlers: in Kansas demand that Indians vacate territory, 36 Seward, William H: reference to "higher law" speech, 42, _footnote_; Chicago speech, 58, 75; Senate speech, 58 Shawnee Manual Labor School, 38 Shawnee Mission: work of Rev. Thomas Johnson at, 22, _footnote_