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,365note;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. SeeHuron 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 atThree 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. SeeSaint Joseph.Jouskeha,a beneficent deity, the sun, the creator,lxxvi,lxxix.
Kennebec, visited by a Jesuit,322.Kieft, William, governor of New Netherland, his kindness to Jogues,235; his letter to the governor of Canada,304note.Kiotsaton, envoy of the Iroquois,284seq.;his speech,287seq.;the French delighted with him,291; another speech,292.
Lafitau, his book on the Iroquois,livnote;describes the council of the Iroquois,lvii,lviii.Lalande, an assistant in the mission,301; tortured by the Mohawks,303; killed by them,304.Lalemant, Gabriel, at the Huron mission,126,371; taken by the Iroquois,381; tortured with fire,388; his death,390.Lalemant, Jerome, brother of Gabriel, assailed by an Algonquin,127; visits Three Rivers,294; becomes Superior of the missions,301.Lauson, president of the Canada Fur Company,156; sells the island of Montreal to the Jesuits,194.Le Berger, a Christian Iroquois,304; endeavors to save Jogues,ib.Le Borgne, chief of Allumette Island, hinders the departure of the missionaries,50; his motives,51; converted,268.Le Jeune, Paul, Father Superior, his voyage,15; his arrival in Quebec,2,15; begins his labors there,16; joins an Indian hunting-party,23; adventures in this connection,25-39; his description of a winter scene,26note;grievances in an Indian lodge in winter,27; experience with a sorcerer,30; suffers the rude banter of the Indians,ib.;doubts whether the Indian sorcerers are impostors or in league with the devil,32; relates what he had been informed of the devil's proceedings in Brazil,33note;attempts to convert a sorcerer,37; disappointment,39; returns to Quebec,40; rejoices at the advent of the new governor,150note;rejoices at the interest in the mission awakened in France,151; has for a correspondent the future Condé,152; is invested with civil authority,154; sends for pictures of the torments of hell,163.Le Mercier, Francis Joseph, joins the mission,85; his peril,125.Le Moyne, among the Hurons,126; among the Onondagas,438,440.Licentiousness of the Indians,xxxivnote;xxxvnote,xlv.Life in a wigwam,27-31.Loretto, in Italy,102,105,432; Old Lorette, in Canada,431; New Lorette, in Canada,432; settlement of Hurons there,ib.Loyola, Ignatius, his story,8; founds the order of Jesuits,9; his book of Spiritual Exercises,10.
Maisonneuve, Chomedey, Sieur de, military leader of the settlement at Montreal,196; spends the first winter at Quebec,202; poorly accommodated there,203; has a quarrel with the governor,204; beloved by his followers,205; compared to Godfrey, the leader of the first crusade,207; lands at Montreal,208,261; plants a cross on the top of the mountain,263; his great bravery,275.Manabozho,a mythical personage,lxviii; the chief deity of the Algonquins, yet not worshipped,lxxii,lxxix; his achievements,lxxiii.Mance, Jeanne, devotes herself to the mission in Canada,198; embarks,201; impressive scene before embarking,ib.;lands at Montreal,208,261.Manitous,a generic term for super-natural beings,lxix;extensive in its meaning,lxx; process for obtaining a guardian manitou,ib.Marie, a Christian Algonquin, her adventures and sufferings,309-313.Marriage among the Hurons often temporary and experimental,xxxiv.Mass, neglect of the, a punishable offence,154,157.Masse,5,20; "le Père Utile,"ib.;his death,260.Medical practice among the Indians,xli,xliinote;lxxxiv,66."Medicine," or Indian charms,lxxi."Medicine-bags,"lxxi; "medicine-men," or sorcerers,lxxxiv,lxxxv,32-38; a "medicine-feast,"66; the religion taught by the Jesuits supposed to be a "medicine,"90.Megapolensis, Dutch pastor at Albany,229; his account of the Mohawks,ib.;befriends Jogues,235.Memory, devices for aiding the,lxi.Messou.SeeManabozho.Mestigoit, an Indian hunter,21,24,29,34; his skill and courage,40; helps Le Jeune to reach Quebec,ib.Mexican fabrics found in Indian cemeteries,79note.Miamis, cannibalism among them,xl.Michabou.SeeManabozho.Micmacs in Nova Scotia,xxii.Minquas. SeeAndastes.Miracles in the Huron mission,108; how to be accounted for,109; why miracles were expected,210note.Miscou, mission at,317.Mission to Hurons. SeeHuron Mission.Mission-house near Quebec described,4.Mohawks,xlviiinote,liv; number of warriors,212,297; their towns,222; make peace with the French,296; credulity and superstition,301; their causeless rage,303; renew the war with the French,306; their perfidy,308; cruelty,ib.;torture of prisoners,309; invade the Huron country,379; furious battle near St. Marie,384; war with the Andastes,441; and Mohicans,ib. note.SeeIroquois.Montmagny, Charles Huault de, succeeds Champlain as governor of New France,149; his zeal for the mission,150,161; meets the Ursulines at their landing,182; quarrels with the leader of the Montreal settlement,204; delivers Montreal to Maisonneuve,208; builds a fort at Sorel,242; called Onontio by the Iroquois,283; negotiates a peace with the Iroquois,284seq.Montagnais, an Algonquin tribe, where found,xxiii; their degradation,ib.;Le Jeune essays their conversion,19; concerned in a treaty of peace,286,293; salutary changes from the influence of the mission,319.Montreal, island of, purchased for the site of a religious community,195; part of the money given by ladies,198; consecrated to the Holy Family,201; the enterprise compared with the crusades,207; first day of the settlement,209; motives of the enterprise, as stated by the leaders themselves,210note;infancy of the settlement,261; rise of the St. Lawrence checked by a wooden cross,263; arrival of D'Ailleboust and others,264; pilgrimages,267; hospital built,266; Indians fed,268; attacks by the Iroquois,269seq.;sally of the French,273; condition of Montreal in 1651,333.Moon, the, worshipped,lxxvi.Morgan, Lewis H., his account of the Iroquois,livnote.Murder atoned for by presents,lxi,lxii,354; a grand ceremony of this sort,355seq.
Nanabush.SeeManabozho.Nation of the Bear,liii.Nation of Fire, an Algonquin people, attacked by the Neutral Nation,436.Neutral Nation,their country,xx,xliv,142; their cruelty and licentiousness,xlv; representations made to them respecting the French,xlvinote;a ferocious people,143; their excessive superstition,ib.;a mission among them attempted,142; but in vain,146; kindness of a Neutral woman,ib.;destroy a large town of the Nation of Fire,436; their ferocious cruelty,ib. note;themselves exterminated by the Iroquois,437.New England, Indians in,xxi; a Jesuit's impressions of,328.Niagara, called the River of the Neutrals,xliv; described by the Jesuits,143note.Nicollet, Jean, visits Green Bay in 1639,166.Nipissings,xxiv.Notre-Dame des Anges, at Quebec,5,155; Notre-Dame de Montreal,193.
Ochateguins.SeeHurons.Ojibwas,how differing in language from Algonquins,xx; visited by Jogues,213.Okies,orOtkons,objects of worship among the Iroquois,lxix.Olier, Jean Jacques, Abbé, suspected of Jansenism,189; has a revelation,190; meets Dauversière,192; their schemes,ib.Oneidas, orOnneyut,one of the Five Nations,xlviiinote,liv. SeeIroquois.Onondagas, or Onnontagué, one of the Five Nations,xlviiinote,liv(seeIroquois); their inroad on the Hurons,343; their jealousy of the Mohawks,344; their embassy to the Hurons,345; suicide of the ambassador,347.Ononkwaya, an Oneida chief, a prisoner to the Hurons,338; his marvellous fortitude under torture,339.Onontio,Great Mountain, name given to the Governor of Canada among the Iroquois, and why,283.Ontitarac, a Huron chief, his speech,119.Orators of the Iroquois,lx.Ossossané, chief town of the Hurons,74; great Huron cemetery there,75; mission established there,110,129; abandoned,139.Ouendats, or Wyandots. SeeHurons.
Parker, Ely S., an educated Iroquois,livnote.Passionists, convent of, a singular incident there,108note.Peace concluded between the French and Iroquois,284-295; defects of the treaty,296; the peace broken and why,302.Peltrie, de la, Madame, her birth,168; her girlhood,169; a widow,ib.;religious schemes,170; resolves to go to Canada,ib.;her sham marriage,172; visits the Ursuline Convent at Tours,173; results of that visit,174; embarks for Canada,181; perilous voyage,182; her character,186; thirst for admiration,187; leaves the Ursulines and joins the Colony of Montreal,206,261; receives the sacrament on the top of the mountain,264; at Quebec,334.Penobscot, a station on it of Capuchin friars,322.Pestilence among the Hurons,87; its supposed origin,94.Persecution of the Jesuits,116seq.Pictures requested for the mission,133; of souls in perdition, many,ib.;of souls in bliss, one,ib.;how to be colored,ib.;Le Jeune describes the pictures of Hell which he wants,163.Picture-writing by the Indians,243.Pierre, an Algonquin,17; teacher of Le Jeune,18; runs away,21; returns,22; frantic from strong drink,24; repents and assists Le Jeune,38; another of this name, a converted Huron,122.Pijart, Pierre, joins the mission,85; his clandestine baptisms,96,97; establishes a mission at Ossossané,110.Piskaret, an Algonquin brave,278; his exploits,279; his successes against the Iroquois,281; assists in a treaty of peace,291; murdered by Mohawks,308.Poncet, father, his pilgrimage to Loretto,104; embarks for Canada,181; his peril,126.Price of a man's life,lxii; of a woman's,ib.Prisoners, cruel treatment of,xxxix,xlv,80,216seq.,248seq.,253,277,339,388seq.,436note,439,441note.Processions, religious, at Quebec,161.