Dahcotah Or Life And Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling
Dahcotah Or Life And Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling
Eastman Mary Henderson
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Now, she has been weeping over the infant who sleeps by her. She is perfectly harmless, and the wife of the war chief kindly gives her food and shelter whenever she wishes it. But it is not often she eats only when desperate from long fasting and when her appetite is satisfied, she seerns to live over the scene, the memory of which has made her what she is. After all but she had eaten of the fish, the Elk related to them the story of the large fish that obstructed the pas sage of the St. Croix ...river. The scene of this tradition was far from them, but the Dahcotahs tell each other over and over again the stories which have been handed down from TONWA-YAH-PE-KIN ; THE SPIES. 163 their fathers, and these incidents are known throughout the tribe. "Two Dahcotahs went to war against their ene mies. On returning home, they stopped at the Lake St. Croix, hungry and much fatigued. " One of them caught a fish, cooked it, and asked his comrade to eat, but he refused. The other argued with him, and begged of him to eat, but still he declined.
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