Legends of the Northwest

by Hanford Lennox Gordon

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[ The Dakotas, like our forefathers and all other barbarians, believe in witches and witchcraft.]

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[ The Medó is a wild potato, it resembles the sweet potato in top and taste. It grows in bottom-lands, and is much prized by the Dakotas for food. The "Dakota Friend," for December, 1850.]

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[ The meteor—Wakân denda—Sacred fire.]

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[ Meetâhwin—My bride.]

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[ Stoke—The body of a tree. This is an old English word of Saxon origin, now changed to stock.]