244–45
spelling of name, 2 n
tree, xx
Clarke School for the Deaf, 203
Clatsop, Fort, 29
Cleveland, Grover, 166
Clinton, DeWitt, 20–21
Cobb, Fort, 113
Cobell, Joe, 119, 123, 126, 127, 161
Cody, Buffalo Bill, 69
Collier, John, 227, 231
Colorado, 83, 86
Colter, John, 29–32, 33
Columbia Fur Company (CFC), 34
Columbia River, 29, 32
Colyer, Vincent, 132–33, 136, 272
Comanches, 24, 113
Confederacy, 4, 67
Congress, U.S., 182
in Indian affairs, 19, 135, 137, 284
Connecticut, 58, 201
Constitution, U.S., Thirteenth Amendment to, 137
Cooke, Camp, 97
Cooper, Gary, 236
Cooper, Peter, 139
cordeling, 38–39
Corps of Discovery expedition, 13–21, 29–30, 38, 243
Cortés, Hernán, 85
Coth-co-co-na (“Cutting Off Head Woman”), 45–53, 74 , 98, 101–2, 198, 200, 244, 262, 269
birth of, 45–46, 255
death of, 160, 201
marriage of M. Clarke and, 2, 4, 9, 48, 51–53, 80–81, 83, 93, 110
Piegan girlhood of, xx, 18, 23, 25, 28, 45–48
as skilled in tanning, 8, 22, 233
wedding of, 5, 8–10
cottonwood, 35, 198, 216, 218
“country wives,” 80
Cox, Jacob D., 114
Creeks, 137
Crees, 24, 26, 37, 43, 44
Cretaceous period, 177
Crockett, Davy, 68–69, 71, 259
Crooks, Ramsey, 34
Crows, 25, 31, 37, 96
Culbertson, Alexander (Little Beaver), 41, 51, 52 , 84, 262–63, 279
in first Montana gold transaction, 86
marriage of Natawista and, 50, 53, 83, 257
and M. Clarke, 23–75, 77–78, 111–12
Culbertson, Joe, 52
Culbertson, John Craighead, 73
Culbertson, Thaddeus, 262
Cumberland Gap, 19
Curly Bear, 193
Curtis, Edward S., 191, 235
Custer, George Armstrong, 111, 113, 115, 133, 162, 181
Cut Bank, Mont., 197, 244
Cypress Hills Massacre, 1–3
David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection, 218
Dawes, Henry L., 166–67
Dawes Act, see General Allotment Act
Dawson, Andrew, 84–85, 263
Dawson, Isabel Clarke, xx, 85, 100, 160, 200, 201
birth of, 81, 263
Dawson, Thomas, xx, 85, 201
deafness, 210
bias against, 214–15
and education, 201–4, 205–9; see also specific schools
languages of, 203–4, 211
see also Clarke, John L., as deaf mute
Deer Lodge Valley, 84, 131
Delawares, 48
DeMille, Cecil B., 153
Democratic Party, 42, 163–64, 274
Deroin, Mitchell, 173
De Smet, Pierre-Jean, 92
De-tan-a-ma-ka (the Man Who Stands Alone with His Gun), 142
de Trobriand, Philippe Régis, 105–7, 107 , 112, 112 , 114, 116–17, 120–21, 124, 129, 131, 140
Detroit, Mich., 59
Devil’s Lake, N.Dak., 201, 204
Devlin, Mary, 155
De Young, Joe, 210
Dickens, Charles, 54
Distant Bear, 45
divorce, 50, 53, 147, 214
Doane, Gustavus Cheyney “Gus,” 127–28, 130 , 272
dogs, 37, 113, 202
in Indian culture, 22, 23, 41, 43, 125, 195, 233
Double Strike Woman (Martha), 145
Douglass, Frederick, 40
Drips, Andrew, 42
Drouillard, George, 15–17, 30, 31–32
duels, 56–57, 62
Eagle Ribs, 25
Earth Woman, 80, 145 , 256
East Glacier Park, Mont.:
Clarke home at, 5, 141, 146–47, 151, 278
J. L. Clarke’s long residency in, 197, 209
J. L. Clarke’s studio at, 207, 211, 212, 217, 218, 224, 227, 233, 238, 239
“ecological Indian,” 205
Ellis, Fort, 109, 110, 118, 129–30, 130
engagés , 50
England, English:
in colonial America, 18–19
imperialistic goal of, 14, 58
Indian alliances with, 19–20, 59
in trade, 27–29
Episcopalians, 79
Erie Canal, 20–21, 45, 65
Europe, Helen Clarke’s reputation in, 158
Ewers, John C., 233–35, 241, 242
expansionism, U.S., 12–13, 18–19, 59, 62, 118, 134, 272
Fallen Timbers, Battle of, 19, 59
Fergus, Andrew, 150 , 151
Fetterman Massacre, 122
Field, Joseph and Reuben, 16–17
Fighting Buffaloes (J. L. Clarke), 217–18
Finney, Charles Grandison, 42
“first American West,” 19
First Kill, see Clarke, Margaret Spanish
Fisk, Elizabeth Chester “Lizzie,” 161–62, 165
Fisk, Robert, 161–62
Flatheads, 26, 89
“fleshing,” 46
Fletcher, Alice, 170, 174, 282
Fog Eater, 143
Font, Juan, 222
Fools Crow (Welch), 1–2, 269
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