Wigwam Evenings: Sioux Folk Tales Retold

by Charles A. Eastman; Elaine Goodale Eastman

CONTENTS

EVENINGS		PAGE
First	The Buffalo and the Field-mouse	[1]
Second	The Frogs and the Crane	[15]
Third	The Eagle and the Beaver	[25]
Fourth	The War Party	[31]
Fifth	The Falcon and the Duck	[39]
Sixth	The Raccoon and the Bee-tree	[49]
Seventh	The Badger and the Bear	[61]
Eighth	The Good-luck Token	[71]
Ninth	Unktomee and his Bundle of Songs	[79]
Tenth	Unktomee and the Elk	[89]
Eleventh	The Festival of the Little People	[99]
Twelfth	Eya the Devourer	[107]
Thirteenth	The Wars of Wa-Kee-Yan and Unk-Tay-Hee	[115]
Fourteenth	The Little Boy Man	[123]
Fifteenth	The Return of the Little Boy Man	[131]
Sixteenth	The First Battle	[139]
Seventeenth	The Beloved of the Sun	[147]
Eighteenth	Wood-Chopper and Berry-picker	[155]
Nineteenth	The Son-in-law	[165]
Twentieth	The Comrades	[175]
Twenty-first	The Laugh-maker	[185]
Twenty-second	The Runaways	[193]
Twenty-third	The Girl Who Married the Star	[203]
Twenty-fourth	North Wind and Star Boy	[211]
Twenty-fifth	The Ten Virgins	[221]
Twenty-sixth	The Magic Arrows	[231]
Twenty-seventh	The Ghost-Wife	[243]

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ILLUSTRATIONS

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The Stranger Watches the Laugh-maker and the Bears	[Frontispiece]
Smoky Day Telling Tales of Old Days around his Fire	[5]
Just then a Fox Crept Up Behind the Crane	[23]
The Falcon chases the old Drake	[43]
"Come down, friends!" called the Raccoon	[54]
So they ran and they ran out of the woods on to the shining white beach	[57]
"I would not trouble you," said he, "but my little folks are starving"	[67]
"Oh, that is only a bundle of old songs," replied Unktomee	[83]
Tanagela and her little brother	[91]
With his long spear he stabbed each of the monsters	[129]
He came to a little hut where lived an old Bear	[162]
"Do not shoot a white deer when you see him coming toward you"	[171]
They stood thus with their beaks touching over the stream	[200]
Star Boy attacked by Hinhan, the Owl	[215]
She took up handsful of ashes to throw into their faces	[227]
He offered up the body as a sacrifice	[235]
At the touch of his magic arrow, it fell at his feet	[240]
He was once seen with several Deer about him, petting and handling them	[247]

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FIRST EVENING

THE BUFFALO AND THE FIELD-MOUSE