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THE MYTHS OF THE
NORTH AMERICAN
INDIANS

BY

LEWIS SPENCE F.R.A.I.

AUTHOR OF "THE MYTHS OF MEXICO AND PERU" "THE
CIVILIZATION OF ANCIENT MEXICO" "A DICTIONARY
OF MYTHOLOGY" ETC. ETC.

WITH THIRTY-TWO PLATES IN COLOUR BY
JAMES JACK AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS

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PREFACE

The North American Indian has so long been anobject of the deepest interest that the neglectof his picturesque and original mythologies andthe tales to which they have given rise is difficult ofcomprehension. In boyhood we are wont to regard himas an instrument specially designed for the execution oftumultuous incident, wherewith heart-stirring fictionmay be manufactured. In manhood we are too apt toconsider him as only fit to be put aside with the matterof Faery and such evanescent stuff and relegated to thelimbo of imagination. Satiated with his constantrecurrence in the tales of our youth, we are perhaps but tooready to hearken credulously to accounts which picturehim as a disreputable vagabond, getting a precariousliving by petty theft or the manufacture of bead ornaments.

It is, indeed, surprising how vague a picture theNorth American Indian presents to the minds of mostpeople in Europe whe

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