Indian Story and Song, from North America

Transcriber's Notes
This e-book contains passages in Native American dialects; hyphenation and accents have been preserved as they appear in the original. Obvious printer errors in English passages have been corrected, in particular the inconsistent use of rythm for rhythm.
Holder of the Thaw Fellowship Peabody Museum Harvard University
Boston Small Maynard & Company Publishers
Copyright, 1900, By Alice C. Fletcher
Entered at Stationers' Hall
To
MY INDIAN FRIENDS
FROM WHOM I HAVE GATHERED
Story and Song

At the Congress of Musicians held in connection with the Trans-Mississippi Exposition at Omaha in July, 1898, several essays upon the songs of the North American Indians were read, in illustration of which a number of Omaha Indians, for the first time, sang their native melodies to an audience largely composed of trained musicians.