A delightful new volume of descriptive and narrative sketches of Indian life, supplementing the author's now famous "Indian Boyhood," whose beauty and poetic charm have impressed thousands of readers. The new book is certain of a wide and appreciative audience.
A delightful new volume of descriptive and narrative sketches of Indian life, supplementing the author's now famous "Indian Boyhood," whose beauty and...
It is the aim of this book to set forth the present status and outlook of the North American Indian. In one sense his is a "vanishing race." In another and an equally true sense it is a thoroughly progressive one, increasing in numbers and vitality, and awakening to the demands of a new life. It is time to ask: What is his national asset? What position does he fill in the body politic? What does he contribute, if anything, to the essential resources of the American nation?
It is the aim of this book to set forth the present status and outlook of the North American Indian. In one sense his is a "vanishing race." In anothe...
These scattered leaves from the unwritten school-book of the wilderness have been gathered together for the children of to-day; both as a slight contribution to the treasures of aboriginal folk-lore, and with the special purpose of adapting them to the demands of the American school and fireside. That is to say, we have chosen from a mass of material the shorter and simpler stories and parts of stories, and have not always insisted upon a literal rendering, but taken such occasional liberties with the originals as seemed necessary to fit them to the exigencies of an unlike tongue and to the...
These scattered leaves from the unwritten school-book of the wilderness have been gathered together for the children of to-day; both as a slight contr...
That these stories about animals were written by an Indian accounts largely, perhaps, for a certain quality differentiating them from others of their class. Many current stories of bird and beast show a wider knowledge of animals than do these under consideration. In this collection, however, there is expressed a feeling of camaraderie between the author and the subjects of the tales, a kinship between man and the animal world, which is not expressed elsewhere.
That these stories about animals were written by an Indian accounts largely, perhaps, for a certain quality differentiating them from others of their ...
No people have a better use of their five senses than the children of the wilderness. We could smell as well as hear and see. We could feel and taste as well as we could see and hear. Nowhere has the memory been more fully developed than in the wild life, and I can still see wherein I owe much to my early training.
No people have a better use of their five senses than the children of the wilderness. We could smell as well as hear and see. We could feel and taste ...
My Native American story does not pretend to be a scientific treatise. It is as true as I can make it to my childhood teaching and ancestral ideals, but from the human, not the ethnological standpoint. I have not cared to pile up more dry bones, but to clothe them with flesh and blood. So much as has been written by strangers of our ancient faith and worship treats it chiefly as matter of curiosity. I should like to emphasize its universal quality, its personal appeal
My Native American story does not pretend to be a scientific treatise. It is as true as I can make it to my childhood teaching and ancestral ideals, b...
