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Wigwam stories in basic vocabulary / by Edward W. Dolch and Marguerite P. Dolch ; illustrated by Robert S. Kerr.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dolch, Edward W. (Edward William), 1889-1961.
- Dolch, Marguerite P. (Marguerite Pierce), 1891-1978, author.
- Series:
- Basic vocabulary series
- The Basic vocabulary series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Folklore.
- Indians of North America.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Title 1 Reading Program (Biddeford, Me.) (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix, 165 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Champaign, Ill. : Garrard Pub. Co., [1956]
- Summary:
- Tales from the folklore of those American Indians whose lodges were usually called wigwams and who were forest peoples. The tribes included are the Menominee, Ojibway, Chippeway, Iroquois, Mohawk, Seneca and Algonquian Indians.
- Contents:
- Manabus gets fire (Menominee)
- How Indian corn came (Ojibway)
- The boy's dream (Ojibway)
- The hunter and the snow (Menominee)
- Moon path (Chippeway)
- The healing waters (Iroquois)
- The great stone face (Mohawk)
- The boy and the kettle (Seneca)
- The boy gets the chestnuts (Seneca)
- The boy who laughed (Seneca)
- The master of the forest (Seneca)
- The magic of Glooskap (Algonquin)
- Little Thunder and the chief of the big water (Algonquin)
- Little Thunder is given Wechipi (Algonquin).
- Notes:
- This collection of Forest Indian tales contains stories from tribes which extended from New York across the country to Wisconsin.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has blue ink stamp ("TITLE 1 READING PROGRAM BIDDEFORD, MAINE") on front pastedown.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 470234
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