G.
Gambling, Indian, [xxxvii].
Garnier, Charles, joins the Huron mission, [86]; his sickness, ib.; his character, [99]; his letters, [101], [133]; his journey to the Tobacco Nation, [140]; at the Huron mission, [370]; slain by the Iroquois, [405]; his body found, [406] note; his gentle spirit, [370], [407]; his absolute devotion to the mission, [407] note.
Garnier, Julien, [liv] note.
Garreau, missionary among the Hurons, his danger, [410].
Gaspé, Algonquins of, their women chaste, [xxxiv].
George, Lake, its first discoverer, [219]; its Indian name, ib. note; called St. Sacrament, [299]; a better name proposed, ib. note.
Gibbons, Edward, welcomes the Jesuit Druilletes to Boston, [325].
Giffard, his seigniory of Beauport, [155], [157]; at Quebec, [334].
Gluttony at feasts, [xxxviii]; practised as a cure for pestilence, [95].
Godefroy, Jean Paul, visits New Haven on an embassy from the governor of Canada, [330].
Goupil, René, a donné of the mission, [214]; made prisoner by the Iroquois, [216]; tortured, [217], [221]; murdered in cold blood, [224].
Goyogouin, a name for the Cayugas, [xlviii] note.
Great Hare, The. See Manabozho.
Green Bay, visited by the French in 1639, [166].
H.
Habitations, Indian, [xxvi]; internal aspect in summer, [xxvii]; in winter, [xxviii].
Hawenniio, the modern Iroquois name for God, [lxxviii].
Hébert, Madame, an early resident of Quebec, [2], [15].
Hell, how represented to the Indians, [88], [163]; pictures of, [163].
Hiawatha, a deified hero, [lxxvii], [lxxviii].
Hodenosaunee, the true name of the Iroquois, [xlviii] note.
Hôtel-Dieu at Quebec founded, [181]; one at Montreal, [266].
Hundred Associates, the, a fur company, its grants of land, [156]; their quit-claim of the island of Montreal, [195]; transfer their monopoly to the colonists, [331].
Hunters of men, [307].
Huron mission proposed, [42]; the difficulties, [43]; motives for the undertaking, [44]; route to the Huron country, [45]; the missionaries baffled by a stroke of Indian diplomacy, [51]; they commence their journey, [53]; fatigues of the way, ib.; reception of the missionaries by the Hurons, [57]; mission house, [60]; methods taken to awaken interest, [61]; instructions given, [62]; the results not satisfactory, [64]; the Jesuits made responsible for the failure of rain, [68]; they gain the confidence of the Huron people, [70]; the mission strengthened by new arrivals, [85]; kindness of the Jesuits to the sick, [87]; their efforts at conversion, [88]; the Hurons slow to apprehend the subject of a future life, [89]; terms of salvation too hard, [90]; an elastic morality practised by the Jesuits, [97]; conversions promoted by supernatural aid, [108]; the new chapel at Ossossané described, [111]; first important success, [112]; persecuting spirit aroused, [115]; the Jesuits in danger, [116]; their daily life, [129]; number of converts in 1638, [132]; backsliding frequent, [135]; partial success, [147]; great subsequent success of the mission, [349]; the mission encounters slander and misrepresentation, [352], [353]; prosperity, [366]; successful agriculture, ib.; number of ecclesiastics and others in the Huron mission, 1649, ib.; the mission removed to an island in Lake Huron, [397]; a multitude of refugees, [399]; their extreme misery, [400]; the priests fully occupied, [401]; the mission abandoned, [415]; failure of the Jesuit plans in Canada, [446]; the cause, [447]; the consequences, [448]. See Jesuits.
Hurons, origin of the name, [xxxiii] note; their country, [xx], [xxiv], [xxv]; had a language akin to the Iroquois, [xxiv]; their disappearance, ib.; vestiges of them still found, [xxv]; supposed population, [xxv], [xxvi]; their habitations, [xxvi], [xxviii] note; extravagant accounts, [xxvi] note; internal aspect of their huts in summer, [xxvii]; in winter, [xxviii]; their fortifications, [xxix]; their agriculture, [xxx]; food, ib.; arts of life, ib.; dress, [xxxii]; dress scarcely worn in summer, [xxxiii]; female life, ib., [xxxv]; an unchaste people, [xxxiv]; marriages, temporary, ib.; shameless conduct of young people, [xxxv] note; employments of the men, [xxxvi]; amusements, ib.; feasts and dances, [xxxvii]; voracity, [xxxviii]; cannibalism, [xxxix]; practice of medicine, [xl]; Huron brains, [xliii]; the Huron Confederacy, [lii]; their political organization, ib.; propensity of the Hurons to theft, [lxiii], [131]; murder atoned for by presents, [lxi]; proceedings in case of witchcraft, [lxiii]; their objects of worship, [lxix] seq.; their conceptions of a future state, [lxxxi]; their burial of the dead, ib.; hostility of the Iroquois, [45], [52], [62]; visit Quebec, [46]; the scene after their arrival described, [47]; their idea of thunder, [69]; Huron graves, [71]; their origin, ib.; disposal of the dead, [73]; "Feast of the Dead," [75] seq.; disinterment, [73]; mourning, [74], [78]; funeral gifts, [76]; frightful scene, [77]; a pestilence, [87]; cannibals, [137]; attacked by the Iroquois, [212], [337]; defeat them, [338]; torture and burn an Iroquois chief, [339]; on the verge of ruin, [341]; apply for help to the Andastes, [342]; specimen of Huron eloquence, [355]; Hurons defeat the Iroquois at Three Rivers, [374]; fatuity of the Hurons, [379]; their towns destroyed, [379] seq.; ruin of the Hurons, [393]; the survivors take refuge on Isle St. Joseph, [399]; their extreme misery, [411] seq.; they abandon the island, [415]; endeavor to reach Quebec, [416]; the Iroquois waylay them, [417]; a fight on the Ottawa, ib.; they reach Montreal, [418]; and Quebec, ib.; a Huron traitor, [419]; a portion of the Hurons retreat to Lake Michigan and the Mississippi, [425]; others become incorporated with the Senecas, [424]; their country desolate, ib.; afterwards known as the Wyandots, [426]; a body of the Hurons left at St. Joseph destroy a party of Iroquois, [427]-[429]; a colony of Hurons near Quebec, [430].
I.
Ihonatiria, a Huron village, [57]; Brébeuf takes up his abode there, [59]; ruined by the pestilence, [137].
Immaculate Conception of the Virgin, [110].
Incarnation, Marie de l', at Tours, [174]; her unhappy marriage, [175]; a widow, ib; self-inflicted austerities, ib.; mystical espousal to Christ, [176]; rhapsodies, ib.; dejection, [177]; abandons her child and becomes a nun, [178]; her talents for business, [179]; her vision, [180]; the vision explained as a call to Canada, [181]; embarks for that country, ib.; perilous voyage, [182]; her arduous labors at Quebec, [185]; her difficulties, [186]; extolled as a saint, [177], [186].
Indian population mutable, [xix]; its distribution, [xx]; two great families, ib.; superstitions and traditions, [lxvii]-[lxxxvii]; dreamers, [lxxxiii]; sorcerers and diviners, [lxxxiv], [93]; their religion fearful yet puerile, [lxxxviii], [94]; an Indian lodge, [141]; Indian manners softened by the influence of the missions, [319]; Indian infatuation, [336].
Indians, their arts of life, [xxx]; amusements, [xxxvi]; festivals, [xxxvii]; social character, [xlviii]; self-control, [xlix]; influenced by custom, ib.; hospitality and generosity, ib. note; fond of society, [1]; their division into clans, [li]; the totem, or symbol of the clan, [39] ib.; Indian rule of descent and inheritance, ib.; vast extent of this rule, [lii]; their superstitions, [lxvii] et seq.; their cosmogonies, [lxxiii], [lxxv]; degrading conceptions of the Supreme Being, [lxxviii]; no word for God, [lxxix]; obliged to use a circumlocution, ib.; their belief in a future state, [lxxx]; their conceptions of it dim, ib.; their belief in dreams, [lxxxiii]; the Indian Pluto, ib. note; the Indian mind stagnant, [lxxxix]; savage in religion as in life, ib.; no knowledge of the true God, ib.; scenes in a wigwam, [30]; their foul language, [31]; not profane, ib.; hardships and sufferings, [39]; a specimen of their diplomacy, [51]; an Indian masquerade, [66]; Indian bacchanals, [67]; their idea of thunder, [69]; Indian mind not a blank, [134]; specimen of Indian reasoning, [135]; Indians received benefit from the Jesuit missions, [164].
Initiatory fast for obtaining a guardian manitou, [lxxi].
"Infernal Wolf," the, [117]; a name for the Devil, ib. note.
Influence of the missions salutary, [319].
Instructions for the missionaries to the Hurons, [54].
Intrepid conduct of the Jesuits, [125].
Iroquois, or Five Nations, origin of the name, [xlvii]; where found in early times, [xx], [xlvi], [278] note; their dwellings, [xxvii] note., [xxviii] note; a licentious people, [xxxiv] note; have capacious skulls, [xliii] note; burn female captives, [xlv]; their character, [xlvii]; their eminent position and influence, ib.; their true name, [xlviii] note; divided into eight clans or families, [lv]; symbols of these clans, ib. note; the chiefs, how selected, [lvi]; the councils, [lvii]; how and when assembled, [lviii]; how conducted, [lix]; their debates, ib.; strict unanimity required, ib.; artful management of the chiefs, [lx] note; the professed orators, [lxi]; military organization, [lxiv]; and discipline, ib.; spirit of the confederacy, [lxv]; attachment to ancient forms, ib.; their increase by adoption, [lxvi]; population at different times, ib. note; have no name for God, [lxxviii]; a captive Iroquois sacrificed by the Hurons to the god of war, [80]; supplied by the Dutch with fire-arms, [211]; make war on the French in Canada, [212], [269] seq.; extreme cruelty to Jogues and other prisoners, [217]-[222], [228]; cannibalism, [228], [250]; audacity, [241]; attack Fort Richelieu, [244]; spread devastation and terror through Canada, [245], [251]; horrible nature of their warfare, [246]-[250]; torments inflicted on prisoners, [248] seq., [271]; an Iroquois prisoner tortured by Algonquins, [277]; treaty of peace with the French and Algonquins, [284] seq.; numbers of the Iroquois, [297] note; the Iroquois determination to destroy the Hurons, [336]; their moral superiority, [337]; a defeat sustained by them, [338]; their shameless treachery, [339]; invade the Huron country and destroy the towns, [379]; their atrocious cruelty, [385]; their retreat, [386]; they pursue the remnants of the Huron nation, [412], [425]; attack the Atticamegues, [420]; attack the Hurons at Michilimackinac, [425]; exterminate the Neutral Nation, [437]; exterminate the Eries, [438]-[440]; terrible cruelty, [441] note; their bloody supremacy, [444]; it cost them dear, ib.; tyrants of a wide wilderness, [445]; their short-sighted policy, [434].
J.
Jesuits, their founder, [8]; their discipline, [11]; their influence, [12]; salutary, [319]; the early Canadian Jesuits did not meddle with political affairs, [323]; denounced cannibalism, but faint in opposing the burning of prisoners, [351]; were engaged in the fur-trade, [365] note; purity of their motives, [83], [85]; benevolent care of the sick, [87], [98], [267]; accused of sorcery, [120]; in great peril, [121]; their intrepidity, [125]; their prudence, [134]; their intense zeal, [146]. See Huron Mission.
Jogues, Isaac, his birth and character, [214]; joins the mission, [86]; his illness, ib.; his character, [106], [304]; his journey to the Tobacco Nation, [140]; visits Lake Superior and preaches to the Ojibwas, [213]; visits Quebec, [214]; taken prisoner by the Iroquois, [216]; tortured by them, [217], [218], [221], [222]; in daily expectation of death, [224], [225]; his conscientiousness, [226], [229], [232]; his patience, [226]; his spirit of devotion, [227]; longs for death, [228]; his pious labors while a captive, ib.; visits Albany, [229]; writes to the commandant at Three Rivers, [230]; escapes, [234]; voyage across the Atlantic, [236]; reception in France, [237]; the queen honors him, [238]; returns to Canada, [239], [286]; his mission to the Mohawks, [297]; misgivings, [298]; has a presentiment of death, ib.; goes as a civilian, ib; visits Fort Orange, [299]; reaches the Mohawk country, ib.; his reception, ib.; returns to Canada, [300]; his second mission to the Mohawks, [301]; warned of danger, ib.; his cruel murder, [304].
Joseph, Saint, his interposition in a case of childbirth, [90]; his help much relied on by the Jesuits, [70], [95], [96]; fireworks let off in his honor, [160]. See Saint Joseph.
Jouskeha, a beneficent deity, the sun, the creator, [lxxvi], [lxxix].
K.
Kennebec, visited by a Jesuit, [322].
Kieft, William, governor of New Netherland, his kindness to Jogues, [235]; his letter to the governor of Canada, [304] note.
Kiotsaton, envoy of the Iroquois, [284] seq.; his speech, [287] seq.; the French delighted with him, [291]; another speech, [292].