Wigwam Evenings - Sioux Folk Tales Retold

Charles Alexander Eastman, Elaine Goodale Eastman

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WIGWAM EVENINGS

SIOUX FOLK TALES RETOLD

 

 

   

   

 

 

BY CHARLES A. EASTMAN (Ohiyesa) AND ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN

Illustrated by Edwin Willard Deming

BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1928

Copyright, 1909, B Y L ITTLE , B ROWN , AND C OMPANY

All rights reserved

P RINTED   IN   THE U NITED S TATES   OF A MERICA

   

 

THE STRANGER WATCHES THE LAUGH-MAKER AND THE BEARS. [F RONTISPIECE .Seepage 189

BOOKS BY CHARLES A. EASTMAN

I NDIAN B OYHOOD F ROM   THE D EEP W OODS   TO C IVILIZATION O LD I NDIAN D AYS I NDIAN S COUT T ALKS I NDIAN H EROES   AND G REAT C HIEFTAINS

     

In Collaboration with ELAINE G. EASTMAN

W IGWAM E VENINGS

NOTE

The authors wish to acknowledge the courtesy of The Ladies' Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, and The Woman's Home Companion, in giving permission to include in this volume several stories which first appeared in their pages.    

PREFACE

These scattered leaves from the unwritten school-book of the wilderness have been gathered together for the children of to-day; both as a slight contribution to the treasures of aboriginal folk-lore, and with the special purpose of adapting them to the demands of the American school and fireside. That is to say, we have chosen from a mass of material the shorter and simpler stories and parts of stories, and have not always insisted upon a literal rendering, but taken such occasional liberties with the originals as seemed necessary to fit them to the exigencies of an unlike tongue and to the sympathies of an alien race. Nevertheless, we hope and think that we have been able to preserve in the main the true spirit and feeling of these old tales—tales that have been handed down by oral tradition alone through many generations of simple and story- loving people. The "Creation myths" and others rich in meaning have been treated very simply, as their symbolism is too complicated for very young readers; and much of the characteristic detail of the rambling native story-teller has been omitted. A story that to our thinking is most effectively told in a brief ten minutes is by him made to fill a long evening by dint of minute and realistic description of every stage of a journey, each camp made, every feature of a ceremony performed, and so on indefinitely. True, the attention of his unlettered listeners never flags; but our sophisticated youngsters would soon weary, we fear, of an such re etition.

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CONTENTS

PAGE

EVENINGS

 

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T HIRD F OURTH F IFTH

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S EVENTH E IGHTH N INTH

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E LEVENTH T WELFTH T HIRTEENTH F OURTEENTH F IFTEENTH S IXTEENTH S EVENTEENTH

E IGHTEENTH N INETEENTH T WENTIETH T WENTY - FIRST T WENTY - SECOND

T HE B UFFALO   AND   THE F IELD - MOUSE T HE F ROGS   AND   THE C RANE T HE E AGLE   AND   THE B EAVER T HE W AR P ARTY T HE F ALCON   AND   THE D UCK T HE R ACCOON   AND   THE B EE - TREE T HE B ADGER   AND   THE B EAR T HE G OOD - LUCK T OKEN U NKTOMEE   AND   HIS B UNDLE   OF S ONGS U NKTOMEE   AND   THE E LK T HE F ESTIVAL   OF   THE L ITTLE P EOPLE E YA   THE D EVOURER T HE W ARS   OF W A -K EE - Y AN   AND U NK -T AY -H EE T HE L ITTLE B OY M AN T HE R ETURN   OF   THE L ITTLE B OY M AN T HE F IRST B ATTLE T HE B ELOVED   OF   THE S UN W OOD -C HOPPER   AND B ERRY - PICKER T HE S ON - IN - LAW T HE C OMRADES

T HE L AUGH - MAKER

T HE R UNAWAYS

1 15 25 31 39 49 61 71 79 89 99 107 115 123 131 139 147 155 165 175

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T WENTY - THIRD T WENTY - FOURTH T WENTY - FIFTH T WENTY - SIXTH T WENTY - SEVENTH

T M RA HE   R G LIR DEI     T W H EH S TA O R 203 N B ROHT O W IND   AND S TAR 211 Y T HE T EN V IRGINS 221

T HE M AGIC A RROWS 231

T HE G HOST -W IFE 243

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE T L HE AU   G S H T - R MAKER RNAEG W ATCH B ES   THE Frontispiece   AND   THE   EARS S O LD OM   K D Y   A D A SY   Y A   R T D EL U L NO IN   HI G   S T A F S RE LE I   OF 5 J UST   THEN   A F OX C REPT U P 23 B EHIND   THE C RANE T HE F ALCON   CHASES   THE   OLD D RAKE 43 "C OME   DOWN , FRIENDS !" CALLED 54 THE R ACCOON S O   THEY   RAN   AND   THEY   RAN   OUT OF   THE   WOODS   ON   TO   THE 57 SHINING   WHITE   BEACH "I WOULD   NOT   TROUBLE   YOU ," SAID   HE , " BUT   MY   LITTLE   FOLKS ARE   STARVING " "O H , THAT   IS   ONLY   A   BUNDLE   OF OLD   SONGS ," REPLIED U NKTOMEE T ANAGELA   AND   HER   LITTLE BROTHER W ITH   HIS   LONG   SPEAR   HE STABBED   EACH   OF   THE   MONSTERS H E   CAME   TO   A   LITTLE   HUT   WHERE

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