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INTRODUCTION

Land and People

NATURE AND HEALTH

SPIRIT OF LIFE

ATTITUDE TOWARDS NATIVE LIFE

INDIANS’ APPRECIATION AND LOVE OF THEIR HOMELAND

THRILLING ESCAPE OF A WAR PARTY OUTNUMBERED AND SURROUNDED BY THEIR ENEMIES

A MANDAN MONUMENT IN COMMEMORATION OF AN ACT OF HEROISM

THE LEGEND OF STANDING ROCK

THE HOLY HILL PAHUK

THE LODGE OF THE BLACK-TAIL DEER WHICH TALKED WITH ITS CAPTOR

THE WONDERFUL BASKET

CAUSE OF THE BREAKING UP OF THE ICE IN THE MISSOURI RIVER IN SPRINGTIME

THE WATER-SPRING OF THE HOLY MAN

THE SACRED SYMBOL OF THE CIRCLE

THE SACRED NUMBER FOUR

THE PRISTINE PRAIRIE

ABORIGINAL AMERICAN AGRICULTURE

THE EARTH-LODGE

DESCRIPTION OF THE TIPI

AN OMAHA GHOST STORY

AN OMAHA HERO SONG

Stories of Plant People

SACRED TREES

THE SONG OF THE PASQUE FLOWER

THE PRAIRIE ROSE

THE SONG OF THE WILD ROSE

USE OF THE GROUND BEAN BY INDIANS

TIPSIN: AN IMPORTANT NATIVE FOOD PLANT

HOW THE PEOPLE OBTAINED THE PRECIOUS GIFT OF CORN

A GROUP OF PAWNEE HYMNS TO CORN

THE FORGOTTEN EAR OF CORN

HOW THE USEFULNESS OF WILD RICE WAS DISCOVERED

A STORY OF THE SUNFLOWER

DAKOTA FOLKLORE OF THE SPIDERWORT

Stories of the Four-Footed People

THE FAITHFUL DOG

HOW COYOTE CHIEF WAS PUNISHED

THE SKUNK AND THE BEAR

THE SONG OF THE OLD WOLF

Stories of the People of the Air

FOLK SAYINGS ABOUT THE MEADOWLARK

HOW THE MEADOWLARK WON THE RACE

INDIAN FOLKLORE OF THE HORNED LARK

HOW IT CAME ABOUT THAT GEESE MIGRATE

THE CAPTIVE BIRD: A TRUE STORY OF CHILDHOOD IN THE OMAHA TRIBE OF NEBRASKA

THE CHICKADEE

THE SONG OF THE WREN

THE WAR EAGLE AND THE JACK-RABBIT

INDEX