. Christian herald and signs of our times . 7io Quaint Indian Legends, Current in the Folk ? Lore of the Indiansof the Northwest. HE red menof the for-est are rap-idly disap-pearing asc i v i I i za-tion pro-gress e s,but manyof t ii equaint leg-ends andt r aditionsof the dif-ferenttribeshave beenp r eservedin literaryform byAmeri c a nand Euro-pean s t u- AN INDIAN SOUAW. J^,^ race. A few ofthese recently collected bya traveler are given briefly below : The Vancouver Indians hold is the Supreme Being—theoriginator of all things. The first Indianwas named after him, and it was h
. Christian herald and signs of our times . 7io Quaint Indian Legends, Current in the Folk ? Lore of the Indiansof the Northwest. HE red menof the for-est are rap-idly disap-pearing asc i v i I i za-tion pro-gress e s,but manyof t ii equaint leg-ends andt r aditionsof the dif-ferenttribeshave beenp r eservedin literaryform byAmeri c a nand Euro-pean s t u- AN INDIAN SOUAW. J^,^ race. A few ofthese recently collected bya traveler are given briefly below : The Vancouver Indians hold is the Supreme Being—theoriginator of all things. The first Indianwas named after him, and it was he whonamed all the tribes, and who taught menall the arts. Before his day men lived inholes in the ground, until he taught themto make an axe out of the elks horn, andcut down the cedar trees and make boardlodges. Formerly they could not fish, butcaught salmon in immense weirs thrownacross rivers, or at river - mouths. Hetaught them to chisel out a canoe ; but itwas a fatal art, for then they went fromhome and engaged in war, and from
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