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