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This is a compendium of oral legends and tales passed down by various Native American tribes, with an emphasis on the famous myth of Hiawatha. From the preface: “There is but one consideration of much moment necessary to be premised respecting these legends and myths. It is this: they are versions of oral relations from the lips of the Indians, and are transcripts of the thought and invention of the aboriginal mind. As such, they furnish illustrations of Indian character and opinions on subjects which the ever-cautious and suspicious minds of this people have, heretofore, concealed. They place the man altogether in a new phasis. They reflect him as he is. They show us what he believes, hopes, fears, wishes, expects, worships, lives for, dies for. They are always true to the Indian manners and customs, opinions and theories.”

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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

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (March 28, 1793 – December 10, 1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River. He is also noted for his major six-volume study of American Indians in the 1850s. He served as a United States Indian agent for a period beginning in 1822 in Michigan, where he married Jane Johnston, mixed-race daughter of a prominent Scotch-Irish fur trader and Ojibwa mother, herself a daughter of Ojibwa war chief Waubojeeg. She taught him the Ojibwe language and much about her maternal culture. They had several children, two of whom survived past childhood. She is now recognized as the first Native American literary writer in the United States. In 1846 the widower Schoolcraft was commissioned by Congress for a major study, known as Indian Tribes of the United States, which was published in six volumes from 1851 to 1857. He married again in 1847, to Mary Howard, from a slaveholding family in South Carolina. In 1860 she published the bestselling The Black Gauntlet, an anti-Uncle Tom's Cabin novel.

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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his "discovery" in 1832 of the source of the Mississippi River. His wife's knowledge on Native American legends shared with Schoolcraft formed in part the source material for Longfellow's epic poem, The Song of Hiawatha. Schoolcraft began his ethnological research in 1822 during his appointment as Indian agent at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. He wedded Jane Johnston, who was the daughter of an Irish fur trader and an Ojibwe woman. From his wife, he learned the Ojibwe language and the lore of the tribe. In 1841 he lost his position as Indian agent and moved back to the East, where he continued to write about Native Americans.