Prairie Smoke
by Melvin R. Gilmore
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About this eBook
- Author
- Gilmore, Melvin R. (Melvin Randolph), 1868-1940
- Title
- Prairie Smoke, a Collection of Lore of the Prairies
- Credits
- Produced by K Nordquist, Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- E011: History: America: America
- Subject
- Dakota Indians -- Folklore
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 36012
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36012
- Release Date
- May 1, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Prairie Smoke (SECOND EDITION, REVISED)
- 2.MAP TO SHOW THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE NATIVE TRIBES IN WHAT IS NOW THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA AND ADJACENT STATES.
- 3.DEDICATION
- 4.INTRODUCTION
- 5.Land and People — NATURE AND HEALTH — SPIRIT OF LIFE — ATTITUDE TOWARDS NATIVE LIFE — INDIANS’ APPRECIATION AND LOVE OF THEIR HOMELAND — SONG TO THE TREES AND STREAMS — 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 — HYMN TO THE SUN — DESCRIPTION OF THE TIPI — AN OMAHA GHOST STORY — AN OMAHA HERO SONG
- 6.Stories of Plant People — SACRED TREES — THE SONG OF THE PASQUE FLOWER — 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 — MOTHER CORN — LEADERSHIP OF MOTHER CORN — GUIDANCE OF MOTHER CORN — A HYMN OF THANKS TO MOTHER CORN — THE FORGOTTEN EAR OF CORN — HOW THE USEFULNESS OF WILD RICE WAS DISCOVERED — A STORY OF THE SUNFLOWER — DAKOTA FOLKLORE OF THE SPIDERWORT
- 7.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
- 8.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
- 9.INDEX
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