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Show INDEX 301 Rocky Mountains, system, 7; watershed, 14. Rye crop, 49. SACHEM, Iroquois league, 155, 156; Iroquois clan, 159, 100; civil officer, 199; hereditary in clan, 199; election ana deposition, 190, 2x0. St. Lawrence River, as route of travel, 24; portages to Hudson, 28; to New England, 29. Salinan family, 95. Salishan family, tribes, 95; culture, 118, 119; social organization, 119; houses, 123. Santa F6 Trail, 36. Sarcee, plains Algonquian, confederacy, 144. Sastean family, 95. Sauk, Algonquian, 150. Scalp- lock, 230; scalping, 244. Scioto Trail, 32. Seals, importance of fisheries, 66; protection and extermination, 66; bibliography, 276. Secret societies, of plains Indians, 145; Mide\ of Ojibwa, 151; Pueblo, 186; general, * 53- Seminole, Muskhogean, 167; offshoot of Creeks, 173; and whites, 173. Seneca, Iroauoian, 153. Senses, Indian acuteness, 264. Seri, Yuman, 181. Shahaptian family, tribes, 95; seat, 118 ; culture, 118,110; social organization, 119; salmon fisheries, 124, 125; houses, 124; horses, 124; physique, 125; in Willamette Valley, 127; bibliography, 280. Shawnee, Algonquian, 150; social organization, 165 salt; manufacture, 165; warlike, 165. Shoshonean family, tribes, 95; migrations, 98; distribution, 118; culture, 119; social organization , up; influence of salmon fisheries, 124; physique, 125; plains tribes, 144- 147; pueblos, 183; present condition, 270. Shuswap, Salishan, 118. Siouan family, tribes, 95; migration, 97; physique, 133; seat, 13j, 175; origin, 134, 137; influence of buffalo, 134; horse and dog, 134; industries, 134; utensils, 135; food, 135; houses, 135, 136; coracle, 137, 237; art, 137; religion, 138; ceremonials, 138; mythology, 138; sun-dance, 138- 140; social organization, 140; property, 140; government, 141; secret organizations, 145; sign language, 145; and whites, 146, 147; confederacy, 246; present condition, 270; bibliography, 282. Skin- dressing, 228, 229. Skittagetan family, 95. Slave tribe, Athapascan, 118. Slavery among Indians, 205. Sledges, 236. Snow- shoes, 236. Social organization, Indian, Eskimo, 108; of northwest coast tribes, 112- 114, 126, 129; classes, 114, 129, 201; Ath apascan, 119, 120; Sioux, 140, 141; Pawnee, 142; secret societies, 145, 151, 186, 253; Algonquian, 152, 164, 165; Iroquois, 155- 161; Creek, 168- 170, 172; Navajo, 178; Pueblo, 186; Mexico, 191; clan, 19^- 205; exogamy, 196; female inheritance, 196- 108; blood revenge, 198; clan government, 199- 201, 205; property, 201, 202; impor- |