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Title: Indian Legends of Minnesota

Author: Various

Editor: Mrs. Cordenio A. Severance

Release Date: June 14, 2008 [EBook #25794]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration: (cover)]

[Illustration: MINNEHAHA. (_Frontispiece._)]

INDIAN LEGENDS OF
MINNESOTA

COMPILED BY

MRS. CORDENIO A. SEVERANCE

"Then a darker, drearier vision
Passed before me vague and cloudlike;
I beheld our nation scattered,
All forgetful of my council,
Weakened, warring with each other:
Saw the remnant of our people
Sweeping westward, wild and woful,
Like the cloud rack of a tempest,
Like the withered leaves of Autumn!"

D. D. MERRILL COMPANY

NEW YORK AND SAINT PAUL

COPYRIGHTED, 1893,

D. D. MERRILL CO.

Dedication,

TO

MRS. FRANCIS B. CLARKE

AND

MR. DELOS A. MONTFORT,

UNDER WHOSE INSPIRATION AND THROUGH WHOSE

ASSISTANCE THIS UNDERTAKING HAS BEEN

MADE POSSIBLE, THIS VOLUME IS

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

THE LONE WAR-PATH. Elaine Goodale Eastman, 9

FOND HEARTS OF THE FOREST, 22

ANPETUSAPA, 32

WINONA, 48

THE PEACE-PIPE QUARRY. Adelaide George Bennett, 77

THE SONG OF HIAWATHA. Henry W. Longfellow, 86

HIAWATHA'S WOOING. Henry W. Longfellow, 91

THE RIVER-LAKE. E. L. Fales, 95

SONG OF A NADOWESSEE CHIEF. Sir E. L. Bulwer, 97

"MAHNUSATIA." Fannie L. Stone, 99

THE DESCENDING STAR. Ida Sexton Searls, 126

THE TRAILING ARBUTUS. Adelaide George Bennett, 13