Wyandot Folk-lore

By Connelley, William Elsey

Subjects: Huron Indians, indian, nebraska, folklore, wyandot, kansas, myth, Indians of North America, folk, custom, lore, wyandotte, indians, Legends, tradition, Folklore, clan

Description: Wyandot Folk-Lore is a history of the Wyandot Indians, along with their customs, traditions, system of clans and government, religion, deities, myths, and ancient stories explaining the creation of their world and the Wyandot people. William Connelley, who was chairman of the Committee on American Ethnology, Western Historical Society, Kansas City, Missouri, was also an adopted Wyandot of the Deer Clan, and served as Sahr-stahr-rah-tseh. In this book, Connelley tells the stories and myths, collected from well-known Wyandots, such as: George Wright (1812-1899), Captain Bull-Head, Matthias & Eliza Barnett Splitlog, Hiram M. & Margaret Clarke Northrup, Lucy Bigelow Armstrong, Sarah Dagnett, Eldredge H. Brown, Rev. Smith Nichols, Hon. Silas Armstrong, and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Mudeater, all of Wyandotte County or Kansas City, Kansas. The Wyandot stories include: The Woman Who Fell From Heaven, The Great Island, The Little Turtle in the Sky, The Twins Born, The Great Island Enlarged, The Modification of the Great Island, The Deer and the Rainbow, People Brought to the Great Island, The First War, The Re-Creation by Tseh-Stah, The Flying Heads, The Great Serpents, The Origin of the Snake and Hawk Clans, The Witch Buffaloes, The Stone Giants, How Wyandots Obtained the Tobacco Plant, The Lazy Hunter, The Tattler, Why the Autumnal Forests are Many-Colored, Origin of the Medicine Formulas, Why the Deer Drops His Horns, The Singing Maidens, and The Indian Gamblers.