--- title: Opening — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees description: Opening, «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: WIGWAM STORIES TOLD BY NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / Opening # Opening Opening of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 24 sentences and 393 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. WIGWAM STORIES TOLD BY NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") COMPILED BY MARY CATHERINE JUDD[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ANGEL de CORA (HINOOK MAHIWI KILINAKA)[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") BOSTON U S A GINN & COMPANY ATHENÆUM PRESS 1904[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") PREFACE[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") These stories, told by and about the Indians, have been gathered from various sources.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") They show, among other interesting facts, that the love of the beautiful, and also of the humorous, dwells in the heart of the wild Indian.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") There are no adaptations from Longfellow’s poem of Hiawatha, but the compiler has gone directly to the works of Schoolcraft, whose writings were Longfellow’s inspiration.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") Schoolcraft’s Journal states his belief that Menabozho and Hiawatha were one and the same person, the latter name being preferred as more musical.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") Hence, Longfellow chose it as the name of his Indian hero.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") Horatio Hale and other authorities on Iroquois history differ strongly from Schoolcraft on this point, and maintain that the name of Hiawatha, or Heyanwatha, refers only to an Iroquois statesman or deity.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") Menabozho, or The Foolish One, is very real to the Chippewa or Ojibway Indian of Minnesota.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") The various names of Missaba, Mesaba, Michabo are merely English or French renderings of the same Algonquin word.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") The later stories herein told, that were gathered from the Chippewas in 1895, 1896, and 1900, prove their unchanging love for the tales of this imaginary hero.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") Attention is called to the very interesting pictures on pages 17, 43, 53, 55, 89, 100, 173, and 188, which are from photographs taken by George Wharton James, of Pasadena, Cal., the noted authority upon Indian life and basketry.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") The copyrighted pictures on pages 43 and 55 are used in this book with his special permission.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") In addition to the numerous illustrations from photographs, Miss Angel de Cora, a young Indian artist of great promise, has contributed three full-page sketches, the cover design, and numerous initials and designs.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") The pictorial features, therefore, reproduce with unusual fidelity the atmosphere of Indian life.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") MARY CATHERINE JUDD.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") Note.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") In answer to inquiries the compiler desires to state that according to the census reports of 1900 there are fifteen American cities any one of which contains more inhabitants than the total number, 266,760, of our taxed and untaxed American Indians; of these nearly one half are in Indian Territory, Alaska, and Arizona.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") M. C. J.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") Minneapolis, Minn., January, 1904.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") CONTENTS[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") - next →: [Sketches of Various Tribes of North American Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/2/) - ↑ back to [Wigwam stories told by North American Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/)