--- title: John York’s Own Story. — Ojibwa myths and tales · full text with trees description: John York’s Own Story., «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: When he was a young man the Mohawks were bad at that time. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/29/) [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/) / [Ojibwa myths and tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/) / John York’s Own Story. # John York’s Own Story. John York’s Own Story. of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw: the whole text, 28 sentences and 466 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. When he was a young man the Mohawks were bad at that time.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") Nobody was allowed to go out alone anywheres.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") He wanted to hunt very badly so he and another young man went out one morning quite a long ways off the Reserve to hunt bear and duck.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") They got to Mud Lake (Carden Township) the next day about the middle of the afternoon.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") They shot about twenty-five duck that night.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") The next morning early they heard something across the narrows; they looked and saw a great, big, black bear.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") They got in their canoe and got near enough to shoot and kill the bear.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") While looking at the dead bear they heard another one coming down to drink, near where they were standing.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") They both shot and killed this one.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") They took the two bears in their canoe and started for home.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") After going down the lake a little way he looked up and saw three bears in a big oak tree.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") The two hunters got out of the canoe and went to the tree.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") He shot the big one but did not kill him outright, but had to shoot again.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") This left only one more shot ready for use, as they had one double and one single-barrel shot guns.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") The other two bears came down the tree.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") He shot one of these and killed it and the last bear had to come down when there was no shot ready for him.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") He (York) grabbed the bear by the legs till the other hunter got his gun loaded.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") The bear was a cub but fought like an old bear, tearing the clothes off the man.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") The hunters got the five bears and took them home.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") When they got home there was a big feast and everybody came and ate some bear meat, for their friends thought the hunters had been killed by the Mohawks.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") The first of these following tales was told to me some eight or ten years ago by Ben Simcoe, an elderly Indian from the Rama Reserve, Ontario County, near Lake Couchiching, and is probably a modern version of an older tale, as it introduces the negro and white man.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") The word “He” in the story stands for “God” or the “Creator.”[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") I could not get definitely from the Simcoe who it did stand for.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") He seemingly did not know much about earlier Indian beliefs and conditions.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") The remaining three stories were told to me this summer by Jonas George, Chippewa, of Rama Reserve, aged about sixty-four, professed Christian.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") His Indian name is Wash-a-ghe-zik, which means “A clear day.”[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") G. E. Laidlaw.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") The sketch of the two little shiny men setting lightning at the tree, also the “Monster,” were drawn by Wash-a-ghe-zik.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [The Indian Boy Who Married a King’s Daughter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/28/) - next →: [The Creation of Man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/30/) - ↑ back to [Ojibwa myths and tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/)