ACKNOWLEDGMENT

INTRODUCTION THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INDIAN LEGENDS

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

A LITTLE TALK ABOUT INDIANS

PIMA TALES CHILDREN OF THE CLOUD

CHEROKEE TALES THE FIRST FIRE

CHOCTAW STORIES WHY POSSUM HAS A LARGE MOUTH

IROQUOIS TALES THE THUNDERERS

TSIMSHIAN TALES HOW THE DAYLIGHT CAME

ALASKAN STORIES THE MAN WHO ENTERTAINED BEARS

BY

ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

GEORGE VARIAN

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1919

Copyright, 1919,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
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All rights reserved

Published, September, 1919

Norwood Press
Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
Presswork by S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

THE CAPTIVE
The murdered dove instantly became a whole flock of hawks.
Frontispiece. See page 18.