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title: XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees
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# XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall

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XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 15 sentences and 257 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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(Portage Indians, 1894)[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics")

There is a noble priest who has long been a missionary among the Portage Indians, near the Lake of the Woods.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") He has won their respect, given them a written language, and taught them many of the white man’s secrets; in return they have told him many of their stories and their secrets.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") They have told him why they no longer own copper mines, but must get copper from the Kaidahs, a stronger tribe.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics")

This is the story:[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics")

Many moons ago the Indians living about Hudson Bay all went to a certain place in the west for their copper.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics")

A great mountain of copper stood there, and it was in the middle of the water.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") The Portage Indians tell that each tribe wanted the mountain; at last, when many tribes were working together to get out the copper, it was agreed to let one tribe own it; but which tribe?[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") No one could tell.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics")

It was left for the copper mountain itself to decide who should be its master.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") All the tribes began to shout for it to come to them.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") The mountain did not move for a long time.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics")

At last it trembled; then the Kaidah Indians, who have big heads and loud voices, shouted louder than any other tribe.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") The top of the mountain fell toward the Kaidahs.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics")

“And that is why we go and trade with them for the copper with which to make the rings we give our women and children,” say the Portage or Carrier Indians of Manitoba.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics")

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