Myths and legends of the New York state Iroquois . ITS TEETH, AND THE WOODCHUCK ITS APPETITE Teh-do-oh, the woodchuck; Nos-gwais, the frog; Jo-nis-gy-ont, thesquirrel Iroquois mythology invests animals and birds with all the traitsand characteristics of the Indian himself. They too have theirtribes people, chiefs who hold councils, and warriors who battle. Nuk-da-go was the head chief of the squirrel tribe. He waspowerful and wise, and could become invisible, and one day whentroubled by a conversation he had overheard between a wood-chuck, a frog and a squirrel, said to himself, I will investi
Myths and legends of the New York state Iroquois . ITS TEETH, AND THE WOODCHUCK ITS APPETITE Teh-do-oh, the woodchuck; Nos-gwais, the frog; Jo-nis-gy-ont, thesquirrel Iroquois mythology invests animals and birds with all the traitsand characteristics of the Indian himself. They too have theirtribes people, chiefs who hold councils, and warriors who battle. Nuk-da-go was the head chief of the squirrel tribe. He waspowerful and wise, and could become invisible, and one day whentroubled by a conversation he had overheard between a wood-chuck, a frog and a squirrel, said to himself, I will investigate. Jo-nis-gy-ont, a frugal squirrel, had laid away his winters supplyof nuts in a hollow tree near a pine, but his storehouse was beingplundered and he was complaining to his nearest neighbors, a wood- Ot-to-tar-ho or To-ta-da-hd became the first presiding sachem of the wampum belt commemorating him is second only in size to the Wing or Carpet beltof the league. Both belts are in the State Museum. IROOUOIS MYTHS AND LEGENDS 119. To-ta-da-ho belt. Sometimes called the Presedentia. It is thesecond largest belt known. The series of diamonds in the center issaid, to represent a covenant chain always to be kept bright. 120 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM chuck who had dug his lodge under the rocks near the pine, and afrog who lived in a marshy place by the side of the river over whichthe pine cast its shadow. The invisible Nuk-da-go listened. Said the frog: I wonder whocould so cruelly deprive poor Jo-nis-gy-ont of his industriousgleanings; and with tears dropping from his eyes seemed to grievegreatly. The woodchuck was indignant, declared it an outrage, andinveighed most bitterly against the robber who had found the hidingplace of Jo-nis-gy-ont, but the wary squirrel knew they were hisonly neighbors who cared for nuts, and received their sympathywith suspicious silence. Thought Nuk-da-go as he listened, Something wrong is goingon here, I will investigate. At midnight the i
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