--- title: XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees description: XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: (Chippewa) --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/60/) [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/) / XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island # XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 85 sentences and 764 words. 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(Chippewa)[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") The spirit that rules the Woman’s Star sent her son Osseo to the earth one day.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") There is a little star that shines every evening near the Woman’s Star.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") It is jealous of the Evening Star, and it sent poison-arrows of starlight on the head of Osseo.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") When the poison light-arrow struck Osseo he became like an Indian who had seen a hundred winters.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Nothing old or evil can live on the Woman’s Star.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") Osseo could not return to his mother.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") He was brave.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") He made no mourning.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") He made many friends among the Ojibways.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") Oweenee was the daughter of a chief.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") She was like the red lily that grows on the prairies.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") She had nine sisters.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") They were like a field of lilies.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") Her sisters had each married a great warrior.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") Oweenee loved the old and wrinkled Osseo.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") There was none to cook the deer meat his trembling feet brought to his wigwam.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") She was very sorry for Osseo.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") Her sisters mocked at her pity for him.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") Osseo heard them one day.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") He took courage and asked her to help him bear his sorrows.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") She became his wife, for she knew his heart was as kind as it was brave.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") The chief of the Ojibways made a great feast.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") The sacred dance was to be danced by all the young braves.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") Oweenee’s sisters mocked at her again.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") This is what they said:[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") “See Oweenee.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") She is like the young vine that clings to the pine that is black with burning.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") Osseo is like the pine that the lightning has torn and burned.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") Oweenee would make him like a young pine.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") She is blind.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") “Osseo, go from us.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") Leave Oweenee.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") She is not for you.”[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") Osseo heard the sisters.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") His heart was very angry.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") His eyes looked like the eyes of the wolverine.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") He looked at Oweenee and then into the sky.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") He gave a strange war cry and shouted: “Sho-wain-ne-me-shing-nosa!”[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") This means, “Pity me, my father.”[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") “Poor old man! he is calling to his father.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") If he goes back, Oweenee will be the wife of a warrior,” said the sisters.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") Osseo crept into a hollow log to hide himself.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") As quick as a bird can fly he came out of the farther end of the hollow log, but he was no longer an old man.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") He was a young brave, finer than any in the Ojibway nation.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") He went to Oweenee.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") When he put his hand upon her she became old like the oldest squaw.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") Her beauty went like the lily that withers in one day.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") Her sisters had no words.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") They sat on the ground and covered their heads with their blankets.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") They said, “We have no Oweenee.”[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") Osseo called her his Nenemoshee, his sweetheart.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") He fed her at the feast.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") He danced the sacred dance.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") His eyes were always toward Oweenee.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") The feast was held in a great lodge.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") Music came into the lodge while they were all eating.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") Osseo understood the music.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") It was his mother talking to him.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") “Come back to me.[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") There is a place ready for you.[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") Your bowls of clay shall be of copper.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") Your kettles of stone shall be wampum.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") Come.”[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") While they were eating the lodge was lifted into the sky.[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") All the tribe who were eating were changed into birds.[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") Oweenee’s sisters became crows.[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") Their husbands became blue jays.[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") Others were changed to quails and wild geese.[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") All but Osseo and Oweenee were birds.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") Osseo looked at Oweenee as they sailed through the air in the shining wigwam.[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") She was still an old squaw.[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") He prayed again to his father.[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") Oweenee became like the lily again just as the lodge rested on the Evening Star.[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") Here everything was peace.[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") All things were happy, and none did harm to another.[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") One day the son of Osseo was learning to use his bow and arrow.[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") He shot one of the singing birds and a drop of blood fell on the star.[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") The bird changed into a woman.[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") The child fell from the star, and the woman and all the birds followed it, down, down to the same island they had left.[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") The shining lodge of Osseo and Oweenee followed them and was fastened on a high hill far out in the big lake.[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") The land was very small there, and as the birds became men and women again, the place was very crowded.[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") Each one became smaller and smaller until they were the smallest people in the world.[83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") They became pukwudjinnies.[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") Schoolcraft.[85](85/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/59/) - next →: [XXXVI. 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