The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

• Publisher: Perlego
• eBook ISBN:
  9700000021620
• Year: 2007

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft Mentor L. Williams... on abstruse points of the Indian
ceremonies and usages, so that I have in fact stumbled, as it were, on the only
family in North West America who could,... persons acquainted with the Indian
customs and character, than to find that the Chippewas amuse themselves with
oral tales of a mythological or allegorical character.... They often take the form of
allegory, and in this shape appear designed to teach some truth or illustrate
some maxim.