Iowa, attitude of Indians toward, 3; extinguishment of Indian title to soil of, 5-8; lack of frontier protection in, 17-25; winter of 1856-1857 in, 42, 43; reference to, 43, 67, 256, 278; Inkpaduta's band in, 68, 69; return of Abbie Gardner to, 244; memorial tributes of, to persons involved in massacre, 260-268; amount received by, for Spirit Lake Relief Expedition, 261-263; appropriation by legislature of, 262; Indian warfare in, 284
Iowa Indians, removal of, from Iowa, 6; murder of, by Sioux, 290
Irish Colony, 38, 61, 180, 193, 196, 198, 201, 206, 207, 210, 309; march of relief expedition to, 180; relief expedition at, 181; refugees sent to, 189; reaching of, by burial party, 203, 204
Jackson (Minnesota), 37, 266; settlement at, 38
James River, 63, 215, 234, 235, 238; rendezvous of Indians on, 65
John Other Day, ransom of Abbie Gardner by, 232-239; expedition guided by, 257; services of, at time of massacre of 1862, 312
Johnson, John C., 165, 192, 194, 200, 214, 266, 307, 309; enlistment of, 165, 166; burial detail commanded by, 192; division in party under, 196, 197; sufferings of party under command of, 199-205; efforts to find, 204; death of, by freezing, 204, 205
Kirchner, Jacob, 39, 40, 88; ill-treatment of family of, by Indians, 89
Kossuth County, alarm in, 22; Indian depredations in, 282
Lake Okoboji, attitude of Indians toward, 1; settlement at, 39; reference to, 41, 88, 137, 142; early visitors at, 44; early accounts of, 44, 45; description of, 46, 47; arrival of Gardner at, 47, 50; settlement on shores of, 50-56; first day of massacre at, 94-107; second day of massacre at, 108-112; visit of Howe to, 159, 160; monument at, 266-268
Land, cession of, by Indians, 4-8; allotment of, to Indians, 9, 10
Laughlin, William K., 165, 184, 185, 192, 200, 201, 264; men kept awake by, 201, 202; fire started by, 202, 203; crossing of river effected by, 203, 204
Lee, L. P., Abbie Gardner escorted by, 244
Liquor-dealers, activities of, among Indians, 13
Little Crow, disturbance quieted by, 251; placing of, in command of expedition, 251, 252; expedition under, 252, 253; uprising under, 254, 255
Little Paul, ransom of Abbie Gardner by, 232-239
Little Sioux River, 1, 30, 38, 46, 73, 78, 82, 84, 85, 87, 90, 91, 93, 95, 293; settlements along, 39, 40