Chapter III: 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