CHAPTER XXX {XIV of Vol. II}

INDIANS OF THE PRAIRIES

System of Chiefs -- Mode of Warfare -- War-Council -- The Scalp-dance -- The Calumet or Pipe of Peace -- Treaties -- Public News-criers -- Arms of the Indians -- Bow and Arrows, etc. -- Hunting -- Dancing -- Language of Signs -- Telegraphs -- Wigwams or Lodges -- Pack-dogs -- Costumes -- Painting, Tattooing, etc. -- Indian Dandies -- Manufactures, and Dressing the Buffalo Rug -- Indian Diet, Fasting, etc. -- Primitive Thomsonians -- Their domestic Animals, the Dog and the Horse -- Wampum -- Their Chronology, 318