SHADOW-LAND. Same as Spirit-land, _which see_ SHANEWIS. Wife of Nekumonta; in the legend of the Healing Waters, 257-260 SHAWNEES. A tribe of the Algonquian stock, 25; as mound-builders, 21; and the King of Rattlesnakes, 248 SHOSHONEANS (Snakes). An ethnic division of the American Indians, 28-29; costume of, 59 SHUSHWAP INDIANS. A Salish tribe; Coyote the creative deity of, 124 SILVER CHAIN. Name applied to the Grand Council of the league of the Five Nations, 226 SÎÑ. Sky-god and principal deity of the Haida; myth of the incarnation of, 314-316 SINNEKES. One of the two political divisions of the Iroquois, 224, 225 SIOUX, or DAKOTA. An ethnic division of the American Indians, 28, 266; superstition of, resembles that of the Itelmians of Kamchatka, 11; dwellings of, 48; face-painting among, 61-62; war-customs of, 68; fetishes of, 92; belief of, respecting the winds, 110; and the eagle, 111; and the rattlesnake, 114; Haokah, the chief thunder-god of, 125; Waukheon, a thunder-god of, 126; Unktahe, the water-god of, 126; and the soul's journey after death, 129; the year of, 132; methods of time-reckoning of, 132-133; myths and legends of, 266-303 SIROUT (Handful of Tobacco). One of the first men, in an Acagchemem creation-myth, 353 SITS-BY-THE-DOOR. The story of, 193-196 SKRÆLINGR. Name given by Norsemen to American natives, 13; attack the early Norse voyagers, 15 SKULL, DEFORMATION OF THE. Practised by the Muskhogean peoples, chiefly by Choctaws, 27; among the Chinooks, 322 SKY-COUNTRY. In a version of the story of Poïa, 201-205 SKY-GOD. Of the Haida--_see_ Sîñ SLOCUM, FRANCES. The story of, 37-45 SMOKE-EATER. A being with magical powers, in Chinook myth, 330 SMOKING among the Indians, 115-118; legend of the origin of, 116; importance of, in Indian life, 131 SNAKE-OGRE. The story of the, 278-282 SNAKE-WIFE. The story of the, 287-292 SNOW-LODGE. The story of the, 149-152 SOKUMAPI. A young brave; in Blackfoot story of the origin of the Bear-spear, 187-190 SOTO, HERNANDO DE. And the Muskhogean people, 27 SOUL. The journey of the, after death, in Indian belief, 129 SOULS, THE LAND OF. In the legend of Sayadio, 260-261 SOUTH-EAST. A Haida deity representing the south-east wind; contest of, with Master-carpenter, 316-318 SPIDER MAN. In the legend of Poïa, 201, 202 SPIRIT-BRIDE. The story of the, 162-165 SPIRIT-LAND. Abode of mortals after death, 129-130; the lesser soul of sick persons taken to, 129, 139-140; 'visits' of medicine-men to, 139-140; in the story of the Spirit-bride, 162-165; in the story of Sayadio, 260-261; Ioi and Blue Jay in, 324-326 SQA-I. A town in the Queen Charlotte Islands; the contest of Master-carpenter and South-east at, 316-318 SQUIER, E. G. And the earth-mounds, 18 STAR-BOY. First name of Poïa, or Scar-face, 201, 203 STAR-COUNTRY, THE. In the story of Algon, 155-156; in the story of Cloud-carrier, 156-159; in the story of the Fairy Wives, 173