CONTENTS

PART I

SKETCHES OF VARIOUS TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS

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[Books in the Indian Language] 3
[Some Things the Indians knew before White Men came] 6
[How the Iroquois built their Log Forts] 10
[Indian Records] 12
[Wampum Money] 15
[Indian Traits] 20
[The Indian’s Eye Training] 26
[Medicine Men among the Indians] 28
[The Indian at Home] 31
[Meaning of Indian Totems and Names] 35
[Indian Names for the Months or Moons] 39
[Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes] 44
[The Indians who live in Brick Houses] 47
[The Moki Indians] 54
[Dakota or Sioux] 57
[Indian Games] 59
[Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota] 62
[Chief Logan and Others] 68
[A Navajo Medicine Chant] 70
[How the Cave People found Dry Land on the Earth (Zuñi Chant)] 72

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PART II

TRADITIONS AND MYTHS

[Introductory—Indian Stories] 79
I. [Iagoo, the Great Story-Teller] 81
II. [How Clay Dishes were first made] 88
III. [Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley] 91
IV. [The Face of the Great Manitou in the Rock] 93
V. [How Two Squaws saved their Band] 96
VI. [Origin of the Crane Tribe] 98
VII. [Story of the First Man and Woman] 101
VIII. [Giants and Fairies] 103
IX. [Weenk the Sleep-Bringer] 105
X. [The Little People of the Senecas] 108
XI. [The Hunter who could fly] 110
XII. [How the Bear lost his Tail] 112
XIII. [The Blue Heron and the Wolf] 115
XIV. [The Little Wolf Brother] 119
XV. [The Good Bear and the Lost Boy] 123
XVI. [Legend of Niagara Falls] 127
XVII. [How the Indians came to know Medicine Plants] 130
XVIII. [Mondahmin, who gave the Corn] 133
XIX. [The Marriage of Mondahmin] 136
XX. [The Prairie Dandelion] 139
XXI. [The Shadow Canoe] 141
XXII. [An Indian Temperance Speech] 145
XXIII. [The Girl who became a Pine Tree] 147
XXIV. [The White Stone Canoe] 151
XXV. [The Great Bear in the Sky] 155
XXVI. [The North Star] [[vii]]157
XXVII. [The Star that never moves] 160
XXVIII. [Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds] 164
XXIX. [The Old Man in the Sky] 167
XXX. [Where the Morning Star came from] 168
XXXI. [The Woman in the Moon] 171
XXXII. [The Seven Stars of Pleiades] 174
XXXIII. [The Chipmunk’s Black Stripes] 176
XXXIV. [The Echo God and the Northern Lights] 179
XXXV. [Legend of Mackinaw Island] 181
XXXVI. [How the Water Lily came] 185
XXXVII. [The North Wind’s Defeat] 189
XXXVIII. [A Rip Van Winkle] 192
XXXIX. [Legend of the Wampum-Bird and the Boy] 200
XL. [The Magic Moccasins] 204
XLI. [Opechee the Robin Redbreast] 208
XLII. [The Indian who married the Moon] 211

PART III

STORIES RECENTLY TOLD OF HIAWATHA AND OTHER HEROES

[Introductory—The Indians’ Present Condition] 217
I. [Menabozho and his Three Brothers] 223
II. [Story of the Deluge] 227
III. [Menabozho caught] 230
IV. [How the Kingfisher got his Ring and his Ruffle] 235
V. [How the Woodchuck helped Menabozho] 237
VI. [Menabozho swallowed by a Large Fish] 239
VII. [The Thunder-Bird of the Dakotas] [[viii]]241
VIII. [Hiawatha the Wise] 244
IX. [Wampum or Indian Money] 251
X. [Legend of the Arbutus] 253
XI. [The One who loved him most] 257
XII. [The Marten and the White Rabbit] 260
XIII. [How Light, Fire, and Water first came to the World] 264
XIV. [How the Copper Mountain came to fall] 266
XV. [The Sun and Moon] 268
XVI. [Custer’s Heart] 270

[Word List] 272

[Glossary] 273 [[ix]]

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