murder

Mahican

nation,

Mohawk

chiefs,

41 j

156; English agree not to assist, 1595 made peace with the Iroquois, 1835 make peace with the Mahicans, 2525 Iroquois refuse to renew war with, 193

Abraham, or Schabash, a Mahican chief, converted

by Moravians, 197 j made captain by Mahicans, 89 ; assistant at Gnadenhiitten, 89; elected chief sachem of Mahicans of the Delaware, 197 Little, sachem of Lower Mohawk castle, 264 ; brother of King Hendrik,

3135 succeeds King Hendrik, 264

Abrahamsen, Isaac, rescues an Indian boy, 107 Ackhough, sachem of Weckquaesgeeks, Adair, James, theory of, concerning gin of American Indians, 16

erected

at, 99 j 99 ; Dutch Mahicans and

Fort Orange erected at,

make treaty with Iroquois at,

54 ; surrendered to the

English, English establish 158 ; council fire at, 161 ; council fire re

moved from, to Mount Johnson, 222 commissioners of congress hold ;

council

with

Iroquois

at,

263 j

aboriginal name of, 398

Algonquin language, 645 grammar of, Aix la Chapelle, conditions of treaty of,

Algonquin nations, 56, 64 Allegewi, tradition concerning, 45 Alliances, how formed, 32 Alliance, nature of, between ^the Dutch and the Iroquois, 145 ; of Dutch with

Long

Island chieftaincies,

1245 of

English with Iroquois and Mahicans, ori

Adogbegnewalquo, a Mohawk chief, ad dress of, 141 Aepjin, chief sachem of Mahicans, 58 j party to treaty of 1645, 118; totemic signature of, 119; council fire

58 ; authorized to treat Aepjin's island, 375 Agassiz, theory of, 17 Analysis of tribes and chieftaincies, 7 1 Andastes, war with the Iroquois, 55 at Schodac,