dark blue sky") Seneca Wolf
CHARLES DOXON (_Hoh squa sa ga dah_--"Woodsman") Onondaga Turtle
DANIEL GEORGE (_Jo ha a ga dah_--"Roadscraper") Onondaga Eel
MARY PRINTUP (_Wah le sa loh_) Mohawk Snipe
DAN WILLIAMS
(_Oh geh rah u reh ru ha neh_--"Running Bear") Tuscarora Bear
ELI HENRY Tuscarora Deer
HARRIETT PEMBLETON (_Gah do rehn tah_--"Dropping Husks") Tuscarora Turtle
AMOS KILLBUCK
(_Har wen do dyoh_--"He has forsaken early dawn") Seneca Wolf
ALFRED JIMESON (_Har neh a oh_--"Hatchet in his hands") Seneca Heron
WILLIAM HOAG (_O no nah_--"Very cold") Seneca Wolf
ELLEN PIERCE SHONGO (_Yea wen noh aih_--"The high word") Seneca Wolf
BAPTIST THOMAS (_Sa ha whe_--"Long feather") Onondaga Turtle
ALBERT CUSICK (_Sha go na qua da_--"Made them mad") Onondaga Eel
THEODORE JIMESON (_Jah o yah_) Seneca Snipe
DAVID WARRIOR (_Dwen o gwah_) Cayuga White Heron
WILLETT JIMESON (_So i as ah_--"Owner of fine cornstalks") Seneca Wolf
NANCY GREYSQUIRREL (_Gah gwah tah_--"One who lifts") Seneca Bear
EMILY TALLCHIEF (_Gi das was_--"Wind blowing through corn") Seneca Turtle
LOUISE PIERCE LOGAN (_Ga yah was_--"The quivering heaven") Seneca Wolf
THOMAS JONES (_Gah ne yehs_--"The dropping snow") Seneca Wolf

FOREWORD

Once our fathers own these lands of New York State. Once the Iroquois
were great people. Their council fires burn from Hudson on east to Lake
Erie on west, from rising to setting sun. Then White man come. He ask
for small seat size buffalo skin. He take larger and larger one, till
Indian have but small place to sit.

Now we have little left but stories of our fathers. They, too, will soon
be lost and forgotten, but a voice has come to speak for us. _Yeh sen
noh wehs_--the one who tells the stories--will carry these stories of
our fathers to Paleface. She will help White man to understand Indian,
Indian to be understood. She will have all men brothers.

Indian's heart is glad that _Yeh sen noh wehs_, our white friend, has
come to us. She have good eyes. She see right. She like things Indian.
She try to preserve them. Our old men and women tell her the stories
told them, many, many moons ago, when little children.

_Yeh