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Indian Legends

 

History is dependent upon stories which are told by word of mouth, and upon stories or records that are preserved in writing. Some of the Indian tribes had a form of picture writing, but usually this was very simple and did not go much beyond pictures of a buffalo hunt or of a fight between Indian chiefs such as a small child might make. In other cases, with more civilized tribes, the picture writing was composed of symbols that we call ideographs, and these are very difficult for us to understand, because we have lost the key. We could not read our English books if we did not know the alphabet. This Indian writing, whatever form it took, was recorded on the stone walls of cliffs or canons, which have been worn away by time, or on single pieces of stone or skin which were not preserved in any way, and we have only a few examples to prove that such a form of writing did exist. But in the stories such as Mrs. Washburne has selected for this book stories that have been told and retold by succeeding generations we are able to learn a great deal about the Indian people.



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