Indian Games and Dances With Native Songs: Arranged From American Indian Ceremonials and Sports
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by Alice Cunningham Fletcher
21 Jan, 2019
This little book took its rise in the following experience that came to me many years ago when living with the Indians in their homes and pursuing my ethnological studies:
One day I suddenly realized with a rude shock that, unlike my Indian friend
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This little book took its rise in the following experience that came to me many years ago when living with the Indians in their homes and pursuing my ethnological studies:
One day I suddenly realized with a rude shock that, unlike my Indian friends, I was an alien, a stranger in my native land; its fauna and flora had no fond, familiar place amid my mental imagery, nor did any thoughts of human aspiration or love give to its hills and valleys the charm of personal companionship. I was alone, even in my loneliness.
Time went on. The outward aspect of nature remained the same, but imperceptibly a change had been wrought in me until I no longer felt alone in a strange, silent country. I had learned to hear the echoes of a time when every living thing upon this land and even the varied overshadowing skies had its voice, a voice that was attentively heard and devoutly heeded by the ancient people of America. Henceforth, to me the plants, the trees, the clouds and all things had become vocal with human hopes, fears and supplications. Less
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