The Myth of Hiawatha: and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians - Softcover
TO
PROF. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.
SIR:—
Permit me to dedicate to you, this volume of Indian myths and legends, derived from the story-telling circle of the native wigwams. That they indicate the possession, by the Vesperic tribes, of mental resources of a very characteristic kind—furnishing, in fact, a new point from which to judge the race, and to excite intellectual sympathies, you have most felicitously shown in your poem of Hiawatha. Not only so, but you have demonstrated, by this pleasing series of pictures of Indian life, sentiment, and invention, that the theme of the native lore reveals one of the true sources of our literary independence. Greece and Rome, England and Italy, have so long furnished, if they have not exhausted, the field of poetic culture, that it is, at least, refreshing to find both in theme and metre, something new.
Very truly yours,
HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT
CONTENTS
Hiawatha; or, Manabozho
Paup-puk-keewiss
Osseo; or, the Son of the Evening Star
Kwasind; or, the fearfully Strong Man
The Jeebi; or, Two Ghosts
Iagoo
Shawondasee
Puck Wudj Ininees; or, the Vanishing Little Men
Pezhiu and Wabose; or, the Lynx and Hare
Peboan and Seegwun. An Allegory of Winter and Spring
Mon-daw-min; or, the Origin of Indian Corn
Nezhik-e-wa-wa-sun; or, the Lone Lightning
The Ak Uk O Jeesh; or, the Groundhog Family
Opeechee; or, the Origin of the Robin
Shingebiss. An Allegory of Self-reliance
The Star Family; or, the Celestial Sisters
Ojeeg Annung; or, the Summer-Maker
Chileeli; or, the Red Lover
Sheem, the forsaken Boy, or Wolf Brother
Mishemokwa; or, the War with the Gigantic Bear wearing
the precious prize of the Necklace of Wampum, or the
Origin of the Small Black Bear
The Red Swan
Tau-wau-chee-hezkaw; or, the White Feather
Pauguk, and the mythological interpretation of Hiawatha
Iëna, the Wanderer; or, Magic Bundle
Mishosha; or, the Magician of Lake Superior
Peeta Kway, the Foam-Woman
Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head
The White Stone Canoe
Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker. A Legend of a Visit to the Sun
Bosh-kwa-dosh; or, the Mastodon
The Sun-Catcher; or, the Boy who set a Snare for the Sun.
A Myth of the Origin of the Dormouse
Wa-wa-be-zo-win; or,
the Swing on the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior
Mukakee Mindemoea; or, the Toad-Woman
Eroneniera; or, an Indian Visit to the Great Spirit
The Six Hawks; or, Broken Wing
Weeng, the Spirit of Sleep
Addik Kum Maig; or, the Origin of the White Fish
Bokwewa; or, the Humpback Magician
Aggodagauda and his Daughter; or, the Man with his Leg tied up
Iosco; or, the Prairie Boys' Visit to the Sun and Moon
The Enchanted Moccasins
Leelinau. A Chippewa Tale
Wild Notes of the Pibbigwun
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1514323656
- ISBN 13 9781514323656
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages378
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