The ethnobotanist Melvin Gilmore collected this lore from the tribes of North Dakota and their neighbours. It includes the Indians’ love of their homeland and ideas of nature and health, tales of a war party’s escape, a Mandan monument to heroism, the legend of Standing Rock, the holy hill Pahuk and a talking black-tailed deer.
A sympathetic, unusually respectful record of Plains Indian tradition from the 1920s. Download the free EPUB.