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]