Wigwam stories told by North American Indians

WIGWAM STORIES TOLD BY NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS COMPILED BY MARY CATHERINE JUDD WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ANGEL de CORA (HINOOK MAHIWI KILINAKA) BOSTON U S A GINN & COMPANY ATHENÆUM PRESS 1904 PREFACE 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 latte…

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