AWACHAWI, an Hidatsa village, 142 AWATICHAY, an Hidatsa village, 142 AYAUWAYS, excursions of, against the Osage, 98 BARK-COVERED LODGES-- as summer habitations, 38, 51, 84 as winter habitations, 51 employed in timber country, 184-185 erected by the Dakota, 44 of the Kansa, 95 of the Mdewakanton, 50 of the Ojibway, 9-13, 16, 17, 56 of the Osage, 98 of the Oto, 120 of the Quapaw, 109 of the Sauk and Foxes, 39 BASKETRY-- of the Arikara, 169 of the Osage, 103 BEAUREGARD, MRS. N.H., copy by, of manuscript, 90 BEDS-- of the Caddo, 183 of the Kansa, 92 of the Mandan, 133, 134 BELLEVUE, a trading post on the Missouri, 81 BIG-BELLIED INDIANS. _See_ Atsina. BIG KAW, an Oto Indian, 117 BIG KNIVES, Kansa name for the whites, 89 BIG TRACK, an Osage chief, 98 BIRCH BARK STRUCTURES, 9-13 _See_ Bark-covered lodges. BLACKFEET CONFEDERACY, tribes composing, 1, 25 BLACKFEET INDIANS-- camps of, described by Maximilian, 28 ceremonial lodges of, 33 country inhabited by, 27, 32 descriptions of, 25-28 manner of living, 33 number of, 32 warlike nature of, 28 war party of, 31 _See_ Siksika. BLACK HAWK, birthplace of, 38 BLACK HILLS, no permanent Indian settlement in, 70 BLOOD INDIANS-- country occupied by, 27, 32 number of, 32 _See_ Kainah. BODMER-- painting by, of Atsina village, 35 painting by, of chief's lodge, 76 painting by, of Mandan village, 133 drawing by, of tipis, 58 sketch by, in Newberry Library, 143 BOWLS, WOODEN, of the Mandan, 137 BRADBURY, visit of, to Omaha village, 78 BRULÉS, a Teton band, 2 BRUSH SHELTERS OF THE ASSINIBOIN, 75 BUFFALO-- Arikara offering to, 174 hunting of, 4-7 importance of, to the Indian, 3-4 manner of traveling, 72 BUFFALO HUNT-- described by Fremont, 35-36 of the Oglala, 68 BUFFALO POUNDS, 5-6 use of, by Blackfeet, 26 BUFFALO SKULLS, a charm to entice buffaloes, 62-63 BUFFALO SOCIETY, Omaha, dance given by, 82 BUFFALO TRAILS, followed by Indians, 7 BULL-BOAT-- characteristic of upper Missouri, 129 of the Hidatsa, 146-147 BURIALS-- Omaha, 78 Oto, 120 scaffold, mention of, 50-51 CACHES-- described by Fletcher and La Flesche, 80 described by Matthews, 150 exposed by railroad cut, 82 for storage of corn, 126 Omaha, described by Gilden, 83, 84 on elevated stage, 12 CADDO-- a tribe of the Caddoan family, 2 country occupied by, 155, 182 described by Joutel, 182-183 CADDOAN FAMILY-- confederacies of, 2 country occupied by, 1 earth lodge characteristic of, 7-8 general movement of, 3 tribes composing, 2 CAHOKIA TRIBE, village of, 41 CANNON RIVER, village near mouth of, 50