INDIANS OF FLORIDA, earliest accounts of them, 20; arms and implements, 21; singular tradition about the whites, 24; villages, 24, 25; dress, 25, 26; worship, 26; mode of life, 27. INDIANS OF NEW MEXICO, their houses and villages, 34, 35, 40-43; folk-lore, 45-49; customs, 50; government, 52; Pimos Indians, 39 (_note_). INDIANS OF GREAT LAKES, Hurons, 71-72; Iroquois, 72. INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA, do honor to Drake, 56; as inhabitants of missions, 61-64; in mines, 279. INDIANS OF HUDSON'S BAY, 137. INDIANS OF VANCOUVER ISLAND, 144 (_note_). INDIANS OF NORTH-WEST TERRITORY, 168. INDIANS OF OREGON, 194-196, 197 (_note_); missions among, 233 (_note_). INDIANS OF KANSAS, 293. INDIANS OF TEXAS, 242. INDIANS OF GREAT PLAINS, 186, 221. (_See_ also under various tribal names.) Iowa admitted to the Union, 248. Iroquois, 72; they block up Lakes Ontario and Erie to the French, 76; conquer and disperse the Hurons, 76, 79 (_note_). Isthmus of Darien crossed by Balboa, 7. Jefferson, Thomas, moves to unravel the Mississippi question, 172; sets exploration of Louisiana on foot, 184; sends Lewis and Clarke to the Pacific, 187. Jesuit missionaries in Canada, 74, 79 (_note_). Joliet, Louis, sent to find the Mississippi River, with Marquette, 85; reaches it, 87; visits the Illinois, 88; reaches the Arkansas nation, 90; turns back, 91, 92 (_note_). Kansas explored by Pike, 200. Kansas, parties to the struggle over, 290; passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 292; described, 292; adapted to slave labor, 294; first advantages with the party of slavery, 295; emigration to, 296; first settlements in, 296; Free-State settlements, 298, 299 (_note_); Missourians seize Territorial government, 302; Topeka Constitution, 302; Lawrence besieged, 302; Free-State leaders held for treason, 303; Lawrence suffers from outrages, 303; Free-State legislature dispersed, 303; Free-State leaders, 304; in a state of anarchy, 305; Lecompton Constitution formed, 305; defeated, 306; ballot-stuffing, 306; admitted to the Union, 320. Kansas City, beginnings of, 234, 241 (_note_). Kearney, Stephen W., marches to New Mexico, 252; takes possession, 254; goes on to California, 255, 256 (_note_); beaten at San Pasqual, 263. Kendrick, John, sails through the Straits of Fuca, 147 (_note_), 158. Kentucky admitted to the Union, 167. Kino, Fr. Eusebius, founds missions, 38. La Chine, origin of name, 96, 99 (_note_). Laclede, Pierre, founds St. Louis, 179, 183 (_note_). Lake Michigan, 92 (_note_).