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Wigwam Stories
	Cover of the 1901 first edition
Author	Mary Catherine Judd
Illustrator	Angel De Cora
Language	English
Subject	traditions, myths, stories, folklore, tribal customs, and sketches of Native American tribes
Genre	Children's literature
Publisher	Ginn & Company
Publication date	1901
Publication place	U.S.
Pages	278

Wigwam Stories is a children's literature book containing traditions, myths, stories, folklore, tribal customs, and sketches of Native American tribes, retold by Mary Catherine Judd.^[1] The first edition was published in 1901 in Boston by Ginn & Company.^[2]

Overview

The tales were told by Native Americans and compiled by a friend of theirs.^[3] The myths which appear in Wigwam Stories are mainly those which refer to nature myths, Judd being guided in her choice by her love for nature which was fostered and encouraged by her work among children while she was a school teacher. The stories were carefully examined by several ethnologists, among them Alice Cunningham Fletcher, a lecturer at Harvard University.^[4]

The book was bound in yellow and brown in a design made up of Native American emblems. The work for the covers and for the headings of the chapters and three of the full-page drawings was done by Angel De Cora. The other illustrations were made from photographs selected with reference to sentiment and meaning by students in the several tribes from whom they are taken.^[4]

There are translations into Spanish and Norwegian.^[5]

Reception

The Chicago Tribune gave the book a mixed review, but was laudatory of the artwork:

Much of the material has been drawn from the same sources that served Henry Wadsworth Longfellow when he was writing Hiawatha, but Miss Judd offers the facts and the stories apparently just as she took them first in her notebook. The traditions and myths which occupy the greater part of the book have all the charm of folklore and fairy tales, but while they are told in the simple, childlike language of the [Native American], the beautiful metaphor and fanciful imagery with which the [Native American] embellishes his language is entirely lacking... The first part of the book, 'Sketches of Various Tribes of North American Indians', reads more or less like an extract from an encyclopedia, but the second and third parts, 'Traditions and Myths' and 'Stories Recently Told of Hiawatha and Other Heroes', cannot fail, because of their subject matter, to be entertaining to the average reader... Several of the illustrations in the book, as well as the cover design, are the work of Miss Angel de Cora, a gifted young Indian artist, thus giving to the pictorial features of the volume an unusually true reproduction of the atmosphere of Indian life.^[6]

Format

Part I: Sketches

Books in the Indian Language
Some Things the Indians knew before White Men came
How the Iroquois built their Log Forts
Indian Records
Wampum Money
Indian Traits
The Indian's Eye Training
Medicine Men among the Indians
The Indian at Home
Meaning of Indian Totems and Names
Indian Names for the Months or Moons
Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes
The Indians who live in Brick Houses
The Moki Indians
Dakota or Sioux
Indian Games
Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota
Chief Logan and Others
A Navajo Medicine Chant
How the Cave People found Dry Land on the Earth

Part II: Traditions and myths

Iagoo, the Great Story-Teller
How Clay Dishes were first made
Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley
The Face of the Great Manitou in the Rock
How Two Squaws saved their Band
Origin of the Crane Tribe
Story of the First Man and Woman
Giants and Fairies
Weenk the Sleep-Bringer
The Little People of the Senecas
The Hunter who could fly
How the Bear lost his Tail
The Blue Heron and the Wolf
The Little Wolf Brother
The Good Bear and the Lost Boy
Legend of Niagara Falls
How the Indians came to know Medicine Plants
Mondahmin, who gave the Corn
The Marriage of Mondahmin
The Prairie Dandelion
The Shadow Canoe
An Indian Temperance Speech
The Girl who became a Pine Tree
The White Stone Canoe
The Great Bear in the Sky
The North Star
The Star that never moves
Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds
The Old Man in the Sky
Where the Morning Star came from
The Woman in the Moon
The Seven Stars of Pleiades
The Chipmunk s Black Stripes
The Echo God and the Northern Lights
Legend of Mackinaw Island
How the Water Lily came
The North Wind s Defeat
A Rip Van Winkle
Legend of the Wampum-Bird and the Boy
The Magic Moccasins
Opechee the Robin Redbreast
The Indian who married the Moon

Part III: Stories recently told of Hiawatha and other heros

Menabozho and his Three Brothers
Story of the Deluge
Menabozho caught
How the Kingfisher got his Ring and his Ruffle
How the Woodchuck helped Menabozho
Menabozho swallowed by a Large Fish
The Thunder-Bird of the Dakotas
Hiawatha the Wise
Wampum or Indian Money
Legend of the Arbutus
The One who loved him most
The Marten and the White Rabbit
How Light, Fire, and Water first came to the World
How the Copper Mountain came to fall
The Sun and Moon
Custer's Heart

References

^ "Indian Tales and Legends". The Minneapolis Journal. 1 June 1901. p. 13. Retrieved 9 April 2023 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ Judd, Mary Catherine (1901). Wigwam Stories Told by North American Indians. Boston: Ginn. OCLC 1102331518 – via Internet Archive. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ "Book Shop". Everyland: A Magazine of World Friendship for Girls and Boys. 5 (4). Everyland publishing Company.: 252 September 1914. Retrieved 9 April 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ ^a ^b "WIGWAM STORIES - Indian Legends Are Arranged by a Minneapolis Woman". Minneapolis Daily Times. 11 May 1901. p. 16. Retrieved 9 April 2023 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ "WIGWAM STORIES' IN NORWEGIAN LANGUAGE". Star Tribune. 6 August 1916. p. 41. Retrieved 9 April 2023 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ "Among the New Books". Chicago Tribune. 29 April 1901. p. 7. Retrieved 9 April 2023 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.