Algic Researches: Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians. First Series. Indian Tales and Legends, المجلد 2Harper, 1839 - 250 من الصفحات |
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Aggo Dah Gauda Algic animals ANTHON'S SERIES appeared arrows asked beautiful birds brother canoe charm chief Cicero classical commenced cousin crawfish cried daugh daughter dead deer distance earth editions eldest entered the lodge father fear fire fish flew friends guardian spirit happy heard hunter hunting husband immediately Indians island Kaubina kill kumaudjing Kwasind lake Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Superior leggings light lived looked magic magician Manabozho Manito Maujeekewis meat Mishosha moccasins Moose morning NETAWIS never night noise Odjibwa Osseo Owasso parents passed procure Professor Anthon Racoon racter reached Red Head Red Swan replied request Sagimau SAGINAW Sallust saying scalp shore sister sitting sleep son-in-law soon spoke stood stranger tell thing thought tion told took tree village walking wampum Wassamo Waub Weendigo wife wish woman Woodpecker woods words young
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الصفحة 129 - Here the chief paused, and after a few moments concluded his story with the following admonitory remarks: "My chiefs and friends," said he, "I will tell you of one practice, in which our forefathers have been wrong. They have been accustomed to deposit too many things with the dead. These implements are burthensome to them. It requires a longer time for them to reach the peace of repose, and almost every one I have conversed with, complained bitterly to me of the evil. It would be wiser to put such...
الصفحة 152 - When they came to the hunter's lodge with whom they were to feast, they found the feast ready prepared, and as soon as their entertainer had finished his harangue (in which he told them his feasting was in honor of the Evening or Woman's Star), they began to partake of the portion dealt out, according to age and character, to each one. The food was very delicious, and they were all happy but Osseo, who looked at his wife and then gazed upward, as if he was looking into the substance of the sky.
الصفحة 150 - Oweenee was deaf to all proposals of the kind. At last she married an old man called Osseo, who was scarcely able to walk, and who was too poor to have things like others.
الصفحة 61 - There lived a hunter in the North, who had a wife and one child. His lodge stood far off in the forest, several days' journey from any other. He spent his days in hunting, and his evenings in relating to his wife the incidents that had befallen him. As game was very abundant, he found no difficulty in killing as much as they wanted. Just in all his acts, he lived a peaceful and happy life. One evening during the winter season, it chanced that he remained out longer than usual, and his wife began...
الصفحة 214 - But the eagle went up above them all, and was ready to claim the victory, when the grey linnet, a very small bird, flew from the eagle's back, where it had perched unperceived, and being fresh and unexhausted, succeeded in going the highest. When the birds came down and met in council to award the prize, it was given to the eagle, because that bird had not only gone up nearer to the sun than any of the larger birds. but it had carried the linnet on its back.
الصفحة 241 - My support," replied the oak, " is naturally yours, and you may rely on my strength to bear you up, but I am too large and too solid to bend. Put your arms around me, my pretty vine, and I will manfully support and cherish you, if you have an ambition to climb, even as high as the clouds.
الصفحة 155 - Pity was shown to you," resumed the king of the star, "on account of the contempt of your wife's sister, who laughed at her ill fortune, and ridiculed you while you were under the power of that wicked spirit, whom you overcame at the log. That spirit lives in the next lodge, being...