The Myth Of The Hiawatha Part 12

51.

The Zea mays, it will be recollected, is indigenous to America, and was unknown in Europe before 1495.

52.

See Notes of the Pibbigwun.

53.

A personification of the Northwest.

54.

There is a group of stars in the Northern hemisphere which the Odjibwas call Ojeeg Annung, or the Fisher Stars. It is believed to be identical with the group of the Plough. They relate the following tale respecting it.

55.

Baskets, or cages.

56.

The idea here indicated is among the peculiar notions of these tribes, and is grafted in the forms of their language, which will be pointed out in the progress of these researches.

57.

Family arms, or armorial mark.

58.

Catfish.

59.

Notes of the Pibbigwun.

60.

Notes of the Pibbigwun.

61.

Wesugaindum, meaning pain or bitterness of mind, is a single expression in the original. It is a trinary compound.

62.

Notes of the Pibbigwun.

63.

War-cry.

64.

A gigantic she bear wearing the sacred necklace of wampum.

65.

My grandfather.

66.

Pai-gwud-aw-diz-zid.

67.

Pungish-e-moo, falling or sinking to a position of repose.

68.

My grandchild.

69.

Enaw-baundum.

70.

The Indian expression is, Awuss-Waubung--the day beyond to-morrow.

71.

A species of hawk.

72.

Cusic tells us there were thirteen of these magistrates before America was discovered. Here mythology takes the shape of historical tradition.

73.

From Ienawdizzi, a wanderer.

74.

The night-hawk.

75.

A marten.

76.

The common poplar, or P. tremuloides.

77.

The beaver.

78.

Here I will lie until I die.

79.

This term means a man that lives on the surface of the earth, as contradistinguished from beings living underground.

80.

He who lives in the city under ground.

81.

People who live above ground.

82.

The end wing feather.

83.

Female spirit or prophetess.

84.

A term indicative of the heir or successor to the first place in power.

85.

A term compounded from sheegowiss, a widow, and mowigh, something nasty.

86.

Pontiac told this story to the a.s.sembled Indians in 1763, to enlist them in his plan to resist the transfer of the country to the English authority, on the fall of the French power in the Canadas.

87.

Owl.

88.

This word has the sound of g hard, with a peculiarity as if followed by k.

89.

This term appears to be a derivative from Addik, the reindeer, and the plural form of the generic Gumee, water, implying deer of the water.

90.

Saut Ste. Marie.

91.

i.e., the sudden stopping of a voice.

92.

Gra.s.shopper.

93.

The East--i.e. place of light.

94.

s.h.i.+p and boat. These terms exhibit the simple and the diminutive forms of the name for s.h.i.+p or vessel. It is also the term for a woman's needlework, and seems to imply a tangled thready ma.s.s, and was perhaps transferred in allusion to a s.h.i.+p's ropes.

95.

Wewaquonidjig, a term early and extensively applied to white men, by our Indians, and still frequently used.

96.

Odawbon comprehends all vehicles between a dog train and a coach, whether on wheels or runners. The term is nearest allied to vehicle.

97.

Ma.s.sive silver.

98.

My father.

99.

A rattle.

100.

A hard primitive stone, frequently found along the borders of the lakes and watercourses, generally fretted into image shapes. Hardness and indestructibility are regarded as its characteristics by the Indians. It is often granite.