--- title: A Legend of Minnehaha Falls — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees description: A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: (Dakota) --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/46/) [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/) / A Legend of Minnehaha Falls # A Legend of Minnehaha Falls A Legend of Minnehaha Falls of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 27 sentences and 445 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. (Dakota)[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") In a wigwam by the Falls of Minnehaha lived an Indian brave with his family.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") Ampata was his wife, and two happy children played in the sunshine around his wigwam.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") The little family went in the winter with their tribe farther south, and the smoke of their village fires could be seen for many miles.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") Here Ampata embroidered the moccasins with colored quills and grasses; these moccasins were for her husband and her children.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Here she made the buckskin suit for her hunter.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") She sewed it with strings of sinew saved from the deer whose skin she had carefully tanned.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") They all went back to the north in the summer time, back to the fall of waters in the Great Father of Waters and to the Falls of Minnehaha.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") There was good fishing in these waters, and their wigwam stayed there all the summer.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") In the north she wove baskets of willows and baked dishes of clay.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") She found the red clay and the yellow for her husband’s war paint; he was a great warrior and wore two eagle feathers in his scalp lock.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") The braves of her tribe had a great battle with the Ojibways.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") Her husband was like two men; he helped drive the Ojibways back to their own fishing grounds.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") There was a great feast after the battle; the warriors sang and told how brave they had been.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") Her husband sang a long song and made a great speech.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") After this he told her that he was a great warrior now and must have two wives; he was going to marry the chief’s daughter.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") Ampata mourned, but he forgot her.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") Ampata fled to her father’s tent and took her two children with her.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") She went to the south with her father when winter came; in the spring she came back to the Falls of Minnehaha with her tribe.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") Her husband did not come for her, and she was alone with her children.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") All the warriors went to hunt the buffalo on the prairie.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") There had been much rain, and the river was wide and deep.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") Ampata put her two children into a canoe, and taking the paddle got in herself and pushed far out into the river.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") The women called to her to come back, but she pushed away faster toward the falls.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") The canoe leaped over the falls, and Ampata and her two children passed to the Happy Hunting Ground of the other world.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") Every spring the Indians say that on moonlit nights they can see the shadow canoe of Ampata leaping over the falls.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") They say white elk and white deer watch it from the shore.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [XX. the Prairie Dandelion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/45/) - next →: [XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/47/) - ↑ back to [Wigwam stories told by North American Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/)