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Myths and Legends of the Sioux

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE SIOUX
MRS. MARIE L. MCLAUGHLIN

In loving memory of my mother, MARY GRAHAM BUISSON, at
whose knee most of the stories contained in this little volume were told
to me, this book is affec- tionately dedicated

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Dedication Foreword The Forgotten Ear of Corn The Little Mice The
Pet Rabbit The Pet Donkey The Rabbit and the Elk The Rabbit and the
Grouse Girls The Faithful Lovers The Artichoke and the Muskrat The
Rabbit, and the Bear with the Flint Body Story of the Lost Wife The
Raccoon and the Crawfish Legend of Standing Rock Story of the Peace
Pipe A Bashful Courtship The Simpleton's Wisdom Little Brave and
the Medicine Woman The Bound Children The Signs of Corn Story of
the Rabbits How the Rabbit Lost His Tail Unktomi and the Arrowheads
The Bear and the Rabbit Hunt Buffalo The Brave Who Went on the
Warpath Alone and Won the Name of the Lone Warrior The Sioux
Who Married the Crow Chief's Daughter The Boy and the Turtles The
Hermit, or the Gift of Corn The Mysterious Butte The Wonderful
Turtle The Man and the Oak Story of the Two Young Friends The
Story of the Pet Crow The "Wasna" (Pemmican Man) and the Unktomi
(Spider) The Resuscitation of the Only Daughter The Story of the Pet
Crane White Plume Story of Pretty Feathered Forehead The Four
Brothers or Inyanhoksila (Stone Boy) The Unktomi (Spider), Two
Widows and the Red Plums

FOREWORD
In publishing these "Myths of the Sioux," I deem it proper to state that I
am of one-fourth Sioux blood. My maternal grandfather, Captain
Duncan Graham, a Scotchman by birth, who had seen service in the
British Army, was one of a party of Scotch Highlanders who in 1811
arrived in the British Northwest by way of York Factory, Hudson Bay,
to found what was known as the Selkirk Colony, near Lake Winnipeg,
now within the province of Manitoba, Canada. Soon after his arrival at
Lake Winnipeg he proceeded up the Red River of the North and the
western fork thereof to its source, and thence down the Minnesota
River to Mendota, the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi
Rivers, where he located. My grandmother, Ha-za-ho-ta-win, was a
full-blood of the Medawakanton Band of the Sioux Tribe of Indians.

My father, Joseph Buisson, born near Montreal, Canada, was connected
with the American Fur Company, with headquarters at Mendota,
Minnesota, which point was for many years the chief distributing depot
of the American Fur Company, from which the Indian trade conducted
by that company on the upper Mississippi was directed.
I was born December 8, 1842, at Wabasha, Minnesota, then Indian
country, and resided thereat until fourteen years of age, when I was sent
to school at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
I was married to Major James McLaughlin at Mendota, Minnesota,
January 28, 1864, and resided in Minnesota until July 1, 1871, when I
accompanied my husband to Devils Lake Agency, North Dakota, then
Dakota Territory, where I remained ten years in most friendly relations
with the Indians of that agency. My husband was Indian agent at Devils
Lake Agency, and in 1881 was transferred to Standing Rock, on the
Missouri River, then a very important agency, to take charge of the
Sioux who had then but recently surrendered to the military authorities,
and been brought by steamboat from various points on the upper
Missouri, to be permanently located on the Standing Rock reservation.
Having been born and reared in an Indian community,