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Title: Thirty Indian Legends

Author: Margaret Bemister

Release Date: April 2, 2008 [EBook #24978]

Language: English

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THIRTY INDIAN LEGENDS ***

Produced by Al Haines

[Frontispiece: THE WINDMAKER]

_MACMILLAN'S LAKESIDE SERIES_

THIRTY INDIAN LEGENDS

BY

MARGARET BEMISTER

TORONTO

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD.

1917

COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1912, BY

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD.

PREFACE

For the most part the legends here told are drawn from original
sources. Many of the stories are printed for the first time; others
have been adapted from well-known authorities. The author wishes to
acknowledge in this latter connection help received from the
collection, "The Indian in his Wigwam." Thanks are also due to Mr. G.
H. Dunn, St. Andrew's Locks, Manitoba, for the "Sleep Fairies"; to Mr.
C. Linklater, Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, for the "Adventures of
Wesakchak"; to Mr. J. S. Logie, Summerland, British Columbia, for "The
Chief's Bride"; to the Okanagan chief, Antowyne, for the other Okanagan
legends; and to a paper read before the Royal Society of Canada by Mr.
G. M. Dawson, for "The Old Stump."

The last story in the book, "A Battle with the Sioux," although not a
legend of the Indians, has been inserted as a true picture of Indian
life and customs, and an interesting account of their contact with and
relation to the white men.

WINNIPEG, CANADA,

September 15, 1912.

CONTENTS

THE GIANT BEAR
THE SUMMER MAKER
THE SLEEP FAIRIES
SHINGEBISS
THE QUEER LITTLE ANIMAL
THE DORMOUSE
THE WINDMAKER
MOOWIS
THE DAUGHTERS OF THE STAR
KOTO AND THE BIRD
THE HUMPBACKED MANITOU
THE TRIBE THAT GREW OUT OF A SHELL
THE STORY OF THE INDIAN CORN
THE MAGICIAN OF LAKE HURON
THE FAIRIES' CLIFF
THE STONE CANOE
THE WHITE FEATHER
THE LONE LIGHTNING
THE ENCHANTED MOCCASINS
THE FIVE WATER-SPIRITS
THE CANOE BREAKER
THE OLD STUMP
THE CLIFF OF SINIKIELT
THE STRANGE DREAM
BIG CHIEF