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Title: Wigwam Evenings
Sioux Folk Tales Retold

Author: Charles Alexander Eastman and 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,
by Little, Brown, and Company
All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America

[Illustration: THE STRANGER WATCHES THE LAUGH-MAKER AND THE BEARS.

FRONTISPIECE. _See page 189_]

_BOOKS BY CHARLES A. EASTMAN_

INDIAN BOYHOOD

FROM THE DEEP WOODS TO CIVILIZATION

OLD INDIAN DAYS

INDIAN SCOUT TALKS

INDIAN HEROES AND GREAT CHIEFTAINS

_In Collaboration with ELAINE G. EASTMAN_

WIGWAM EVENINGS

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 t