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Original copyright date 1901, this edition published 1915. Illustrated with photogravure images.
These stories, told by and about the Indians have been gathered from various sources. They show, among other interesting facts, that the love of the beautiful, and also of the humorous , dwells in the heart of the wild Indian.
There are no adaptations from Longfellow's poem of Hiawatha, but the compiler has gone directly to the works of Schoolcraft, whose writings were Longfellow's inspiration. Schoolcraft's Journal states his belief that Menabozho and Hiawatha were one and the same person, the latter name being preferred as more musical.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I - Sketches of Various Tribes of North American Indians
- Books in the Indian Language
- Some Things the Indians knew before White Men came
- How the Iroquois built their Log Forts
- Indian Records
- Wampum Money
- Indian Traits
- The Indian's Eye Training
- Medicine Men among the Indians
- The Indian at Home
- Meaning of Indian Totems and Names
- Indian Names for months or moons
- Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and other tribes
- The Indians who live in Brick Houses
- The Moki Indians
- Dakota or Sioux
- Indian Games
- Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota
- Chief Logan and Others
- A Navajo Medicine Chant
- How the Cave People found Dry Land on the Earth (Zuni Chant)
PART II - Traditions and Myths
- Introductory - Indian Stories
- Iagoo, the Great Story-Teller
- How Clay Dishes were first made
- Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley
- The Face of the Great Manitou in the Rock
- How Two Squaws saved their Band
- Origin of the Crane Tribe
- Story of the First Man and Woman
- Giants and Fairies
- Weenk the Sleep Bringer
- The Little People of the Senecas
- The Hunter who could fly
- How the Bear lost his Tail
- The Blue Heron and the Wolf
- The Little Wolf Brother
- The Good Bear and the Lost Boy
- Legend of Niagara Falls
- How the Indians came to know Medicine Plants
- Mondahmin, who gave the Corn
- The Marriage of Mondahmin
- The Prairie Dandelion
- The Shadow Canoe
- An Indian Temperance Speech
- The Girl who became a Pine Tree
- The White Stone Canoe
- The Great Bear in the Sky
- The North Star
- The Star that never moves
- Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds
- The Old Man in the Sky
- Where the Morning Star came from
- The Woman in the Moon
- The Seven Stars of Pleiades
- The Chipmunks Black Stripes
- The Echo God and the Northern Lights
- Legend of Mackinaw Island
- How the Water Lily came
- The North Wind's Defeat
- A Rip Van Winkle
- Legend of the Wampum-Bird and the Boy
- The Magic Moccasins
- Opechee the Robin Readbreast
- The Indian who married the Moon
PART III - Stories recently told of Hiawatha and other Heros
- Introductory - The Indians' Present Condition
- Menabozho and his Three Brothers
- Story of the Deluge
- Menabozho caught
- How the Kingfisher got his Ring and his Ruffle
- How the Woodchuck helped Menabozho
- Menabozho swallowed by a large fish
- The Thunder-Bird of the Dakotas
- Hiawatha the Wise
- Wampum or Indian Money
- Legend of the Arbutus
- The One who loved him most
- The Marten and the White Rabbit
- How Light, Fire, and Water first came to the world
- How the Copper Mountain came to fall
- The Sun and Moon
- Custer's Heart
CONDITION: Hard Cover, 278 pages including glossary of Indian words used, USED - moderate overall wear to hard cover boards and pages, some pages are repaired with tape, mild warp/ripple, former Highland Education book, Good. 1 page missing page 193.
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