CONTENTS
Reading edition
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
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 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 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