MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE SIOUX - 38 Sioux myths and legends
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38 unique Sioux myths and legends for all to enjoy
Classic Native American Folklore featuring Unktomi (the spider)
33% of the net profit will be donated to the American Indian Education Foundation
Herein readers will find 38 Sioux folk and fairy tales. Stories like - THE FORGOTTEN EAR OF CORN, THE LITTLE MICE, THE PET RABBIT, THE STORY OF THE LOST WIFE, THE FAITHFUL LOVERS, THE BRAVE WHO WENT ON THE WARPATH ALONE AND WON THE NAME OF THE LONE WARRIOR and many more.
The 38 stories contained in this little volume were told to the compiler by the older men and women of the Sioux a long, long time ago. Careful notes were made, knowing that, if not recorded correctly, these folk tales would be lost to posterity by the passing of the primitive Indian, for the American Indian race was, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at a most interesting stage of development. Its ancient culture was fast receding into the mists of the past.
The compiler of the stories was, herself, one-fourth Sioux and through her birth acquired a thorough knowledge of the Sioux language. Her maternal grandfather, a Scotsman by birth, who in 1811 arrived in the British Northwest to found what was known as the Selkirk Colony, near Lake Winnipeg. Her grandmother, Ha-za-ho-ta-win, was a full-blood of the Medawakanton Band of the Sioux Tribe of Indians. Her father, Joseph Buisson, was born near Montreal, Canada.
She married Major James McLaughlin who became the Indian agent at the Devils Lake Agency, North Dakota. Later they were transferred to Standing Rock, on the Missouri River, to take charge of the Sioux who had then but recently surrendered to the military authorities. Having lived on Indian reservations over forty years she, therefore, had exceptional opportunities of learning the legends and folk-lore of the Sioux.
33% of the net profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
Excerpt from MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE SIOUX - 38 Sioux myths and legends
THE LEGEND OF STANDING ROCK
A Dakota had married an Arikara woman, and by her had one child. By and by he took another wife. The first wife was jealous and pouted. When time came for the village to break camp she refused to move from her place on the tent floor. The tent was taken down but she sat on the ground with her babe on her back The rest of the camp with her husband went on.
At noon her husband halted the line. "Go back to your sister-in-law," he said to his two brothers. "Tell her to come on and we will await you here. But hasten, for I fear she may grow desperate and kill herself."
The two rode off and arrived at their former camping place in the evening. The woman still sat on the ground. The elder spoke:
"Sister-in-law, get up. We have come for you. The camp awaits you."
She did not answer, and he put out his hand and touched her head. She had turned to stone!
The two brothers lashed their ponies and came back to camp. They told their story, but were not believed. "The woman has killed herself and my brothers will not tell me," said the husband. However, the whole village broke camp and came back to the place where they had left the woman. Sure enough, she sat there still, a block of stone.
The Indians were greatly excited. They chose out a handsome pony, made a new travois and placed the stone in the carrying net. Pony and travois were both beautifully painted and decorated with streamers and colors. The stone was thought "wakan" (holy), and was given a place of honor in the center of the camp. Whenever the camp moved the stone and travois were taken along. Thus the stone woman was carried for years, and finally brought to Standing Rock Agency, and now rests upon a brick pedestal in front of the Agency office. From this stone Standing Rock Agency derives its name.
Table of Contents for MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE SIOUX - 38 Sioux myths and legends
THE FORGOTTEN EAR OF CORN
THE LITTLE MICE
THE PET DONKEY
THE RABBIT AND THE ELK
THE RABBIT AND THE GROUSE GIRLS
THE FAITHFUL LOVERS
THE ARTICHOKE AND THE MUSKRAT
THE RABBIT AND THE BEAR WITH THE FLINT BODY
STORY OF THE LOST WIFE
THE RACCOON AND THE CRAWFISH
LEGEND OF STANDING ROCK
STORY OF THE PEACE PIPE
A BASHFUL COURTSHIP
THE SIMPLETON'S WISDOM
A LITTLE BRAVE AND THE MEDICINE WOMAN
THE BOUND CHILDREN
THE SIGNS OF CORN
STORY OF THE RABBITS
HOW THE RABBIT LOST HIS TAIL
UNKTOMI AND THE ARROWHEADS
THE BEAR AND THE RABBIT HUNT BUFFALO
THE BRAVE WHO WENT ON THE WARPATH ALONE AND WON THE NAME OF THE LONE WARRIOR
THE SIOUX WHO MARRIED THE CROW CHIEF'S DAUGHTER
THE BOY AND THE TURTLES
THE HERMIT, OR THE GIFT OF CORN
THE MYSTERIOUS BUTTE
THE WONDERFUL TURTLE
THE MAN AND THE OAK
STORY OF THE TWO YOUNG FRIENDS
THE STORY OF THE PET CROW
THE "WASNA" (PEMMICAN) MAN AND THE UNKTOMI (SPIDER)
THE RESUSCITATION OF THE ONLY DAUGHTER
THE STORY OF THE PET CRANE
WHITE PLUME
STORY OF PRETTY FEATHERED FOREHEAD
THE FOUR BROTHERS OR INYANHOKSILA (STONE BOY)
THE UNKTOMI (SPIDER), TWO WIDOWS, AND THE RED PLUMS
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