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o have been made, at the great deluge, from the flesh of the perishing Indian.] [Footnote 16: In Northern Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River, the scene of a terrible massacre by the Indians and Tories in 1778. Campbell wrote _Gertrude of Wyoming_ on the incidents of that July 5th.] [Footnote 17: A section of Alabama, taking its name from the chief defeated by De Soto in 1540.] "The Falls of Minnehaha." (The Scenery about Fort Snelling, etc.) THE DESCENDING STAR. This legend is related by Kah-ge-ga-gah-bawh, chief of the Ojibway Nation, or Chippewas, in his "Traditional History of the Ojibway Nation" purporting to be the first volume of Indian history written by an Indian. In common with his forest brethren, he "was brought up in the woods." Twenty months passed in a school in Illinois constituted the sum-total of his schooling. But he had learned the traditions of his people, as was customary, from the lips of the chief, his father. Through the stilted language of this somewhat unlettered Indian we catch faint glimpses of the poetic beauty with which the tradition glowed when actually related at the wigwam door. An attempt has been made to retain and crystallize this poetic beauty in the preceding metrical version of the Indian legend. THE TRAILING ARBUTUS. A new version of the beautiful and popular legend of the first spring flower, making the visitant to the old man's lodge a maiden, and identifying the blossom as the trailing arbutus, was told by Hon. C. L. Belknap of Michigan before the Folk-Lore Society in Washington, Dec., 1891. THE SEA-GULL. [Footnote 18: _Kay-oshk_ is the Ojibway name for the sea-gull.] [Footnote 19: _Gitchee_--great,--_Gumee_--sea or lake,--Lake Superior also often called Ochipwe Gitchee Gumee, Great Lake (or sea) of the Ojibways.] [Footnote 20: _Ne-me-Shomis_--my grandfather. "In the days of my grandfather" is the Ojibway's preface to all his traditions and legends.] [Footnote 21: _Waub_--white--_O-jeeg_--fisher (a furred animal). White Fisher was the name of a noted Ojibway chief who lived on the south shore of Lake Superior many years ago. Schoolcraft married one of his descendants.] [Footnote 22: _Ma-kwa_ or _mush-kwa_--the bear.] [Footnote 23: The _Te-ke-nah-gun_ is a board upon one side of which a sort of basket is fastened or woven with thongs of skin or strips of cloth. In this the babe is placed and the mother carries it on her back. In th
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