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Indian Legends of Minnesota By: Cordenio A. Severance (1863?-1925) |
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[Illustration: MINNEHAHA. ( Frontispiece. )]
INDIAN LEGENDS OF
MINNESOTA
COMPILED BY MRS. CORDENIO A. SEVERANCE
"Then a darker, drearier vision
Passed before me vague and cloudlike;
I beheld our nation scattered,
All forgetful of my council,
Weakened, warring with each other:
Saw the remnant of our people
Sweeping westward, wild and woful,
Like the cloud rack of a tempest,
Like the withered leaves of Autumn!"
D. D. MERRILL COMPANY NEW YORK AND SAINT PAUL
COPYRIGHTED, 1893, D. D. MERRILL CO.
Dedication, TO MRS. FRANCIS B. CLARKE AND MR. DELOS A. MONTFORT, UNDER WHOSE INSPIRATION AND THROUGH WHOSE ASSISTANCE THIS UNDERTAKING HAS BEEN MADE POSSIBLE, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.
CONTENTS. PAGE THE LONE WAR PATH. Elaine Goodale Eastman, 9 FOND HEARTS OF THE FOREST, 22 ANPETUSAPA, 32 WINONA, 48 THE PEACE PIPE QUARRY. Adelaide George Bennett, 77 THE SONG OF HIAWATHA. Henry W. Longfellow, 86 HIAWATHA'S WOOING. Henry W. Longfellow, 91 THE RIVER LAKE. E. L. Fales, 95 SONG OF A NADOWESSEE CHIEF. Sir E. L. Bulwer, 97 "MAHNUSATIA." Fannie L. Stone, 99 THE DESCENDING STAR. Ida Sexton Searls, 126 THE TRAILING ARBUTUS. Adelaide George Bennett, 132 NOPA. Ida Sexton Searls, 136 THE SEA GULL, 139 SWEET WATER, 162 DEATH OF WINONA. H. L. Gordon, 171 THE LEGEND OF THE MOCCASIN FLOWER. Ida Sexton Searls, 175 NOTES, 179
PREFACE.
In presenting to the public this volume the compiler wishes to disown
any attempt at a complete collection of Indian legends; both her
knowledge of archæology, and the time allowed for the completion of
the work are inadequate to such an achievement. She has attempted to
gather the more noticeable legends already in verse in order to
stimulate interest in the scenery and romance of her State. From its
name Minnesota to its floral emblem the moccasin flower the State
everywhere bears the impress of former occupation. About every lake,
forest, and valley clings the aroma of romance in the form of name or
legend of the vanished Red Man. The indistinct memory of his loves, wars, and adventures is growing
rapidly fainter, until even the story teller himself is confused as to
the relation between event and locality. It has therefore seemed wise
to link indissolubly scene and incident, that the poetry of those who
have here lived and loved may not be completely displaced by the
prosaic commerce of the white man. The compiler wishes also to express her thanks to the writers who have
allowed their works to reappear in this volume: To Rev. E. D. Neill,
D.D., for much valuable counsel, and to Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for
permission to make extracts from Hiawatha.
INDIAN LEGENDS. The Lone War Path. A STORY OF SIOUX AND BLACKFOOT.
O'er a vast prairie stoops the sultry night;
The moon in her broad kingdom wanders white;
High hung in space, she swims the murky blue.
Low lies yon village of the roaming Sioux
Its smoke stained lodges, moving toward the west,
By conquering Sleep invaded and possessed. All there, save one, own his benign command;
Their chief has lately left this little band,
And up the glittering path of spirits fled;
Thus his young widow, not a twelvemonth wed,
In yonder solitary tent conceals
The aching hope, the trembling pangs she feels. How breathless is the night! None saw it rise
That black cloud stealing up the glassy skies
Till threatening murmurs, loud and louder grown,
Burst from its swelling bosom, and the moon
Slips into brief oblivion, while a glare
As of far, flickering torches, seems to bear
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