The Enchanted Moccasins and Other Native American Legends

by Schoolcraft, Henry R.

• ISBN13: 9780486460147
• ISBN10: 0486460142
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-26
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry R. Schoolcraft immersed himself in the legends and lore of Native American Indians. For thirty years he lived among Indian tribes in the West and around the Great Lakes, where night after night he listened to master storytellers weave spellbinding tales around the dancing embers of lodge fires. Carefully chosen from the many legends Schoolcraft heard, this collection presents nineteen fables brimming with myth and magic. Originally part of the oral tradition and passed down to generations of Native American children, they have been lovingly written down to spark the imaginations of modern generations.

Table of Contents

The Boy Who Set a Snare for the Sun	p. 1
Manabozho, the Mischief-Maker	p. 7
The Celestial Sisters	p. 42
Gray Eagle and His Five Brothers	p. 50
He of the Little Shell	p. 57
Osseo, the Son of the Evening Star	p. 65
The Wonderful Exploits of Grasshopper	p. 74
The Toad-Woman	p. 106
The Origin of the Robin	p. 113
White Feather and the Six Giants	p. 117
The Magic Packet	p. 129
The Man with His Leg Tied Up	p. 132
Leelinau, the Lost Daughter	p. 140
The Winter Spirit and His Visitor	p. 149
The Enchanted Moccasins	p. 152
The Weendigoes and the Bone-Dwarf	p. 168
The Fire-Plume	p. 178
The Little Boy-Man	p. 201
Wunzh, the Father of Indian Corn	p. 211
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