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], [>]

  Skicowáros, [>], [>], [>]

  skrælings (natives), [>], [>] (n)

  Slany, John, [>]

  “slave cords,” [>]–[>]

  slaves, runaway, sanctuary given, [>]

  smallpox dance (itohvnv), [>]

  Smith, James, [>]

  Smith, John

  capture and release of, [>]

  and conditions at Jamestown, [>], [>], [>]

  departure from Virginia, [>] (n)

  explorations along New England coast, [>]

  on Indian interest in beads, [>]

  Ktə̀hαnəto’s assistance to, [>]

  relationship with Opechancanough, [>], [>] f, [>]

  and the story of Pocahontas, [>]

  on woodlands of Virginia, [>]–[>]

  Smith, William, [>]

  Snow Hill, NC, [>]–[>]

  Sokokis, [>]–[>]

  Solutrean culture (southwestern Europe), [>]–[>]

  Sonte, John, [>] (n)

  South Carolina. See also Indian slave trade/slaves

  African slaves in, [>]–[>]

  Chicora colony, [>]

  separation from North Carolina, [>]–[>]

  soldiers from, at Will’s Creek, [>]

  Yamasee War, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Southeast America, [>], [>]

  Southeast Tribal Territories (map), [>] f

  Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, [>], [>]

  Southern Cult, [>]

  South Mountain, PA, [>]–[>]

  soveraignty & goodness of God. . ., The (Rowlandson), [>]

  Spain/Spanish

  alliance with England during the Nine Years’ War, [>]

  brutality of, [>]

  colonization efforts, [>], [>], [>] (n)

  destruction of Native tribes by, [>], [>]

  dominance in North America, [>]

  explorations along Southeast coast, [>]

  mission network, [>]

  northern expansion of empire, [>]

  outlawing of Indian slavery, [>]

  participation in King William’s War/Nine Years’ War, [>]

  repartimiento system, [>], [>], [>]

  Spanish Florida, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  during Yamasee War, [>]

  War of the Spanish Succession, [>]–[>]

  whaling and fishing expeditions to North America, [>]–[>]

  spear points, Clovis, [>]–[>]

  Speedwell (ship), [>]

  Spotswood, Alexander, [>]–[>], [>]

  Squando, [>]

  Squanto (Tisquantum), [>], [>]–[>]

  squaw, origins of term, [>] (n)

  squaw sachem, [>], [>] (n)

  Squirrel (ship), [>]

  Stadacona Iroquis, [>]–[>], [>]

  Stallings Island people, GA, [>]

  Stamp Act of 1765, [>]

  Stanford, Dennis, [>]–[>]

  Stanton, Thomas, [>]

  St. Augustine, FL, [>]

  Stephen, Adam, [>]

  Stevens, Simon, [>]–[>]

  Stobo, Robert

  delays in reaching Fort Prince George, [>]

  description and map of Fort Duquesne, [>] f, [>], [>]

  efforts to swap French prisoners for, [>]

  escape attempts, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  at Fort Necessity, [>]

  as hostage, [>], [>]–[>]

  imprisonment, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  life after return to Virginia, [>]–[>]

  mission to Amherst at Crown Point, [>]

  preparation for war, [>]

  service with Wolfe, [>]–[>]

  suicide, [>]

  trial of, for treason, [>]–[>]

  unmarked grave, [>]

  Stone, John, [>]–[>]

  Stoneman, John, [>]

  Stonewall John (John Wallmaker), [>] (n), [>]

  Strachey, William, [>]

  Stuart, Charles, 3510352

  Stuart’s Town, Port Royal Sound, [>]

  Stucley, Thomas, [>]–[>], [>] (n)

  Stump, Stoffel, [>], [>]

  Stuyvesant, Peter, [>]–[>]

  Susquehanna Company of Connecticut, [>]

  Susquehanna Indians, [>]

  Susquehanna Valley, PA

  depopulation of following Beaver Wars, [>]

  European settlement, [>]

  inclusion east of the Proclamation Line, [>]–[>]

  Lenape relocation to, [>]

  Penn’s desire to expand in to, [>]

  relocation of Natives to, [>]–[>], [>]

  sanctuary provided runaway slaves, [>]

  Susquehanna backcountry, [>]–[>]

  Susquehannock

  homeland, [>]

  military support from the English, [>]

  Piscataway settlement with, [>]

  resettlement in Susquehanna Valley, [>]

  wars with Virginia settlers, [>]

  Sweden/Swedes

  basic misunderstanding of Native culture, [>]–[>]

  settlement along Delaware Bay, [>], [>]

  territory controlled by, [>]

  Swedish Florida Company, [>]

  Switzerland/Swiss

  immigration to Carolina, [>]

  Tuscarora attacks on, [>]

  Syll, Joseph, [>]

  Tagashata, [>]

  Taignoagny, [>]–[>]

  Taino, [>]

  Tamanend, [>]–[>]

  Tamaqua (“the Beaver”), [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Tampa Bay, FL, [>]

  Tampico, Mexico, [>]–[>]

  Tanaghrisson

  allegiance to the Mingo, [>]

  as diplomat/negotiator, [>], [>]

  efforts to find asylum, [>]

  first records of, [>] (n)

  illness and death, [>], [>] (n)

  murder of Jumonville, [>]

  relationship with the French, [>], [>]

  relationship with Washington, [>], [>]

  relocation to Harris’ Ferry, [>]

  requests for military support, [>]

  spellings of name, [>]

  relationship with Shingas, [>]

  support for building fort at Forks of the Ohio, [>]

  trip to Aughwick by, [>]

  unmarked grave, [>]

  Tantamous (Old Jethro), [>], [>]

  Tarachiawagon. See Weiser, Conrad

  Tatatiquinea (Peter Conway), [>]

  Tatobem, [>]–[>]

  Teedyuscung

  and attacks on frontier settlers, [>]–[>], [>]

  at Easton treaty councils, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  efforts to discredit, [>]–[>], [>]

  exposure of the Walking Purchase fraud, [>]

  murder of, [>]

  as peace maker, [>]

  personality, [>]

  removals experienced by, [>]

  unmarked grave, [>]

  teethha (Tuscaroran chief), [>]

  Tennessee Path, [>]

  Thomas, Will, [>]–[>]

  Thoreau, Henry David, [>]–[>]

  Thule, [>]–[>]

  Thury, Louis-Pierre, [>]

  Tift (Teffe), Joshua, [>], [>] (n)

  Timucua, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Tisquantum (Squanto), [>] (n), [>]–[>]

  tobacco, [>]–[>]

  Tom Blount, [>], [>]

  torture, ritual. See also captives; scalping

  among Algonquians, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  as component of Native warfare, [>]–[>]

  Gyles on, [>]

  by Mohegan, [>]

  by the Ohio Indians, [>]–[>]

  by Pequot, [>]

  scalping as, [>] (n)

  by the Tuscarora, [>]–[>]

  by the Yamasee, [>]

  Tostee, Peter, [>]

  Townshend Acts of 1767, [>]

  trade, traders. See also Indian slave trade

  among Paleo-Indians, [>] (n)

  with the Basque, [>]

  desirable vs. undesirable items, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  between explorers
and Natives, [>]

  and interdependency between Natives and colonists, [>]–[>]

  native commercial interests, [>]–[>]

  in Ohio country, [>], [>], [>]

  in South Carolina, [>]–[>]

  trade pidgin, [>], [>], [>], [>] (n)

  trade wars, [>]

  trail systems for, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  trail systems

  Allegheny Path, [>]

  Calusa, [>]

  Nipmuc Trail, [>]–[>]

  Pennsylvania, map showing, [>] f–87 f

  and Pleistocene travelers, [>]–[>]

  rivers as, [>]–[>]

  Sheshequin Path, [>]

  through Spanish Florida, [>], [>]

  well-established, within woodlands, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  treaties, treaty councils

  between Abenaki and English, [>]

  between the Abenaki and Maine colonies, [>]

  Easton treaty councils, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Native speeches at, recording of, [>] (n)

  between Ohio Indians and Pennsylvania officials, [>]–[>]

  second Easton treaty, [>]

  1638 treaty between Pequot and English, [>]

  1675 between Narragansett and the United Colonies, [>]

  1744 at Lancaster, [>]

  Treatise of Military Discipline, A, [>], [>], [>]

  Trent, William, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Tribal Territories of the Northeast (map), [>] f

  “tribe,” as term, [>]

  tribute. See also wampum

  among Algonquians, [>]

  among the Calusa, [>]

  imposed on Pequot, [>]

  reciprocity implied by payment of, [>]

  as recognition of authority, [>], [>]

  Smith’s demands for, [>]

  Tsenacommacah, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Tulpehocken Valley, PA, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Tundra Nentsi group, Siberia, [>]

  Tuscarora

  attacks on by Barnwell and Yamasee, [>]–[>]

  attacks on settlers by, [>]–[>]

  defeat and enslavement, [>], [>]–[>]

  defensive works, [>]–[>]

  at Easton grand council, [>]

  homeland, [>]

  integration into the Iroquois, [>]–[>], [>]

  life and customs, [>]–[>], [>] (n)

  ongoing attacks on, [>]–[>]

  origins, [>]

  relocation efforts, [>]–[>], [>]

  territory controlled by, [>]

  Tuscarora and Yamasee Wars (map), [>] f

  Tutelo, [>], [>], [>]

  Twide, Richard, [>]

  Unalachtigo (Jerseys), [>], [>] (n)

  Unami (Delaware Lenape), [>], [>] (n). See also Lenape (Delaware)

  Uncas

  capture and murder of Miantonomi, [>]

  during King Philip’s War, [>], [>]

  leadership position, [>]–[>]

  relationship with the Connecticut River colonies, [>]–[>]

  relationship with the English, [>]

  relationship with the Massachusetts Bay Colony, [>]

  relationship with the Narragansett, [>], [>]

  relationship with the Pequot, [>], [>]–[>]

  Underhill, John, [>], [>]–[>], [>] f, [>]–[>]

  United Colonies of England, [>], [>], [>]

  United Provinces of the Netherlands. See Netherlands/the Dutch

  Upper Creek, [>]

  uprisings, Native, fear of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]. See also King Philip’s War; Pontiac’s War; Yamasee War

  van Braam, Jacob

  acquittal, [>]

  escape attempt, [>]

  as hostage, [>], [>]–[>]

  imprisonment, [>], [>]–[>]

  as interpreter/negotiator, [>], [>]–[>]

  retirement, [>]

  trial of, for treason, [>]–[>]

  Vane, Henry, [>]–[>]

  Vaudreil, Pierre de Rigaud de, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Vaughan, Alden, [>]

  Velasco, Don Luis de, [>]

  Verrazano, Giovanni da, [>], [>]–[>]

  vigilantes and lynch mobs, [>]

  Vikings, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Vinland (Newfoundland), [>]–[>]

  Virginia. See also Jamestown colony

  absence from Albany Congress, [>]

  Algonquian-speaking peoples, [>]

  in fight against Tuscarora, [>]

  military actions in Ohio country, [>]

  Natives captured from, [>]

  non-Algonquian peoples, [>]

  the Ohio Company, [>]

  response to defeat at Great Meadows in, [>]

  soldiers from, at Will’s Creek, [>]

  treaties/land deals with Iroquois, [>]–[>]

  Virginia Company, [>]–[>]

  war between Susquehannock and settlers in, [>]

  during Yamasee War, [>]

  Virginia Company, [>]

  Wabash River, [>]–[>]

  Wahunsenacwah (Powhatan), [>]

  Waldron, Richard, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  walina’kiak, [>]

  Walker, John, [>] (n)

  Walking Purchase

  exposure of as deceit, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  as land grab, [>]–[>]

  Teedyuscung’s dropping of claim of fraud, [>]

  Wallace, Alfred, Wallace’s Line, [>] (n)

  Wallangundowngen. See Post, Christian Frederick

  Walsingham, Francis, [>], [>]

  Wampanoag

  aid given Pilgrims at Plymouth, [>]

  depopulation of, [>]

  as English captives, [>]–[>]

  groups included in, [>] (n)

  during King Philip’s War, [>], [>]–[>]

  relations with the Narragansett, [>], [>]

  wampum

  communications using, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  diplomatic function, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>] f, [>], [>]

  exchange value, [>], [>]–[>]

  trade in, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Wamsutta, [>], [>], [>] (n)

  Wanalancet, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Wapánahki

  creation stories, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>] (n)

  daily life/diet, [>]–[>]

  depopulation of, [>]

  early encounters with the wenooch, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  efforts to convert to Christianity, [>]

  as English captives, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  groups included in, [>], [>] (n)

  hunting territory, [>]

  language, [>] (n), [>] (n)

  names, rendering of, [>] (n)

  relationship with English, [>] (n), [>], [>] (n)

  relationship with French, [>]

  relationship with Mi’kmaq, [>]

  territory controlled by, [>]

  trail systems, [>]–[>]

  western Abenaki branch, [>]

  Wapping, [>]

  Ward, Edward, [>], [>]

  warfare. See also ritual torture; scalping; weapons; specific wars and conflicts

  along eastern frontier, changing rationale for, [>]

  among Natives, [>], [>]

  biological, [>]

  early, evidence for, [>]

  between Natives and colonists, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Native vs. European, [>]–[>]

  sham battles, [>] (n)

  War of the Austrian Succession (King George’s War), [>]

  War of the Grand Alliance, [>]

  War of the League of Augsburg, [>]

  War of the Spanish Succession, [>]–[>]

  Warresquioake, VA, [>], [>]

  Warumbee, [>]

  Washington, George

  at battles for Fort Duquesne, [>], [>]

  campaigns conducted by (map), [>] f

  commission to deliver message to French, [>]–[>]

  criticism of, following military defeat, [>]
>
  with First Virginia Regiment, [>] f

  at Fort Cumberland, [>]–[>]

  at Fort Necessity, [>]–[>]

  and Jumonville’s death, [>], [>] (n)

  provisioning responsibilities, [>]–[>]

  rejection of Logstown as site for a fort, [>]

  relationship with the French, [>]

  road building responsibilities, [>]–[>]

  role in start of Seven Year’s War, [>]

  travel journal, [>

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