[46] Wild geese.
[47] Lake Pepin: by Hennepin called the Lake of Tears.—Called by the Dakotas Pem-uee-chah-mday—Lake of the Mountain.
[48] The rock from which Winona leaped was formerly perpendicular to the water's edge and she leaped into the lake. The rock to-day is crumbled and the waters have receded to some distance from the rock. Winona's spirit is said to still haunt the lake.
Transcriber's Notes
Original variations in spelling, grammar, punctuation, diacritical marks, and hyphenation have been retained, except for the following changes:
Page [5]: CONTENTS: Changed some titles slightly to match the poem titles.
Page [48]: relf-reliant changed to self-reliant
(Fearless and relf-reliant, she could go)
Page [91]: Period changed to comma after warriors
(Ah, no more such noble warriors.
Could be found on earth as they were!)
Page [130]: Illustration caption changed from LIMPED to LIMPID
("... AND ALIGHTED SOON ON THE WATERS' LIMPED BREAST.")
Page [149]: whie changed to white
(Like the whie down of Waubésè)
Page [171]: No footnote reference for pahin, so footnote anchor removed.
(There the fleet hunters followed the deer, and the thorny pahin
for the women.)
Pages [179]-[184]: Notes renumbered sequentially.
Page [182]: "Hold-in-the-day" changed to "Hole-in-the-day"
("Sioux outbreak" in 1862 "Hold-in-the-day" for a time)
Page [184]: WINONA changed to DEATH OF WINONA to match poem title.