Legends of the Northwest

by Hanford Lennox Gordon

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[ Tipsânna (often called tipsinna) is a wild prairie turnip used for food by the Dakotas. It grows on high, dry land, and increases from year to year. It is eaten both cooked and raw.]

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[ Rio Tajo, (or Tagus), a river of Spain and Portugal.]

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"* * * * Bees of Trebizond—
Which from the sunniest flowers that glad
With their pure smile the gardens round,
Draw venom forth that drives men mad."
—Thomas Moore]

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[ Skeé-skah—The Wood duck.]

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[ The Crocus. I have seen the prairies in Minnesota spangled with these beautiful flowers in various colors before the ground was entirely free from frost. The Datotas call them frost-flowers.]