Henry Rowe Schoolcraft spent decades living among the Ojibwe people of the Great Lakes, and this collection of their oral legends — including the Hiawatha cycle that Longfellow transformed into his famous poem — is one of the foundational texts of Native American mythology in print. The stories encompass creation myths, trickster tales, hero journeys, and explanations of the natural world.
An irreplaceable record of Indigenous storytelling as it was transmitted in the early nineteenth century, this book is essential reading in American mythology and folklore. This free EPUB is cleanly formatted for any device.