Judd. Wigwam Stories

Today's free book is Wigwam Stories Told by North American Indians by Mary Catherine Judd (1901), with illustrations by Angel de Cora (Hinook Mahiwi Kilinaka). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

You can read more about the artist Angel de Cora at Wikipedia.

The book is available at Hathi Trust (I have not checked for other online sources).



Table of Contents

I. lagoo, the Great Story-Teller 

II. How Clay Dishes were first made 

III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley 

IV. The Face of the Great Manitou in the Rock 

V. How Two Squaws saved their Band 

VI. Origin of the Crane Tribe 

VII. Story of the First Man and Woman 

VIII. Giants and Fairies 

IX. Weenk the Sleep-Bringer 

X. The Little People of the Senecas 

XL The Hunter who could fly 

XII. How the Bear lost his Tail 

XIII. The Blue Heron and the Wolf 

XIV. The Little Wolf Brother 

XV. The Good Bear and the Lost Boy 

XVI. Legend of Niagara Falls 

XVII. How the Indians came to know Medicine Plants 

XVIII. Mondahmin, who gave the Corn 

XIX. The Marriage of Mondahmin 

XX. The Prairie Dandelion 

XXI. The Shadow Canoe 

XXII. An Indian Temperance Speech 

XXIII. The Girl who became a Pine Tree 

XXIV. The White Stone Canoe 

XXV. The Great Bear in the Sky 

XXVI. The North Star 

XXVII. The Star that never moves 

XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds

XXIX. The Old Man in the Sky 

XXX. Where the Morning Star came from 

XXXI. The Woman in the Moon 

XXXII. The Seven Stars of Pleiades 

XXXIII. The Chipmunk s Black Stripes 

XXXIV. The Echo God and the Northern Lights 

XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island 

XXXVI. How the Water Lily came 

XXXVII. The North Wind s Defeat 

XXXVIII. A Rip Van Winkle 

XXXIX. Legend of the Wampum-Bird and the Boy

XL. The Magic Moccasins 

XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast 

XLII. The Indian who married the Moon 

STORIES RECENTLY TOLD OF HIAWATHA AND OTHER
HEROES

I. Menabozho and his Three Brothers 

II. Story of the Deluge 

III. Menabozho caught 

IV. How the Kingfisher got his Ring and his Ruffle

V. How the Woodchuck helped Menabozho 

VI. Menabozho swallowed by a Large Fish 

VII. The Thunder-Bird of the Dakotas 

VIII. Hiawatha the Wise 

IX. Wampum or Indian Money 

X. Legend of the Arbutus 

XI. The One who loved him most 

XII. The Marten and the White Rabbit 

XIII. How Light, Fire, and Water first came to the World 

XIV. How the Copper Mountain came to fall 

XV. The Sun and Moon 

XVI. Custer's Heart