The lost giant and other American Indian tales retold; . WHITMAN PUBLISHING CO. RACINE, WISCONSIN Donated byJonathan Demme COPYRIGHTED. iqi8 BY ^^HitmainT Publishing Co* AUG 0 9 2006 ]i - - — s CONTENTS The Lost Giant 11 The Feathered Bridegroom 27 Mandowmin of the Maize 41 awahnee and the glant 57 ILLUSTRATIONS What Are You Doing? Asked the Bridegroom (frontispiece in color) Decorative Title Page 1 He Swung the Child Aloft on His Shoulder 13 They Came Flying Out of the Bag (color) 16 The Family Sat Pefore Its Tent. ... 28 She Bade Him Welcome to Her Lodge (color) 32 As Tall as a Man It Stood
The lost giant and other American Indian tales retold; . WHITMAN PUBLISHING CO. RACINE, WISCONSIN Donated byJonathan Demme COPYRIGHTED. iqi8 BY ^^HitmainT Publishing Co* AUG 0 9 2006 ]i - - — s CONTENTS The Lost Giant 11 The Feathered Bridegroom 27 Mandowmin of the Maize 41 awahnee and the glant 57 ILLUSTRATIONS What Are You Doing? Asked the Bridegroom (frontispiece in color) Decorative Title Page 1 He Swung the Child Aloft on His Shoulder 13 They Came Flying Out of the Bag (color) 16 The Family Sat Pefore Its Tent. ... 28 She Bade Him Welcome to Her Lodge (color) 32 As Tall as a Man It Stood 42 The Next Day the Young Brave Ap-peared (color) 49 He Carried Water in a Gourd 55 To cMy beloved Faftier^ who was always ready wifh an answer to fhose questions o£ childhood: <<cDid you ever see a really-truly Indian? and Will you tell me about when you were a little boy? ,H INTRODUCTION. MONG the Indians who used toroam over our Western prairies insuch vast numbers, story tellingwas of the greatest the opening of spring,through the summer, and far intothe fall, the men and older boysof the tribe were out each day hunting the deerin the hills and the buffalo on the plains orspearing fish in the streams. The women andgirls meantime were occupied with their house-hold duties about the tepees. But at last came the long winter monthswhen game was scarce, and the old trailswere covered with a blanket of snow. Thenthe Indians would retreat to the snug wig-wams, and there await the coming of springagain. They had no books to read or news-papers and magazines with which to whileaway those long winter days, and life wouldhave been dull indeed had it not been fortheir ability to tell stories to each other. They never lacked material out of whichto build those tales, Each bird and beast. x INTRODUCTION each herb and flower; in fact, every livingtiling that ran, or
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