MIK UM WESS, THE INDIAN PUCK, OR ROBIN GOOD-FELLOW
GLOOSKAP KILLING HIS BROTHER, THE WOLF
GLOOSKAP LOOKING AT THE WHALE SMOKING HIS PIPE
GLOOSKAP SETTING HIS DOGS ON THE WITCHES
THE MUD-TURTLE JUMPING OVER THE WIGWAM OF HIS FATHER-IN-LAW
GLOOSKAP AND KEANKE SPEARING THE WHALE
GLOOSKAP TURNING A MAN INTO A CEDAR-TREE
LOX CARRIED OFF BY CULLOO
THE INDIAN BOY AND THE MUSK-RAT. SEEPS, THE DUCK
THE RABBIT MAGICIAN
THE CHENOO AND THE LIZARD
THE WOMAN AND THE SERPENT
INTRODUCTION
Among the six chief divisions of the red Indians of North America the
most widely extended is the Algonquin. This people ranged from Labrador
to the far South, from Newfoundland to the Rocky Mountains, speaking
forty dialects, as the Hon. J. H. Trumbull has shown in his valuable
work on the subject. Belonging to this division are the Micmacs of New
Brunswick and the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes of Maine, who with
the St. Francis Indians of Canada and some smaller clans call
themselves the Wabanaki, a word derived from a root signifying white or
light, intimating that they live nearest to the rising sun or the east.
In fact, the French-speaking St. Francis family, who are known _par
eminence_ as "the Abenaki," translate the term by _point du
jour_.
The Wabanaki have in common the traditions of a grand mythology, the
central figure of which is a demigod or hero, who, while he is always
great, consistent, and benevolent, and never devoid of dignity,
presents traits which are very much more like those of Odin and Thor,
with not a little of Pantagruel, than anything in the characters of the
Chippewa Manobozho, or the Iroquois Hiawatha.
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