Rolf in the Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton
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Kuloskap the Master."
The Ghost Dance Song was fumished by Alice C. Fletcher, whose "Indian Song and Story" will prove a revelation to those who wish to follow further. ERNEST THOMPSON SETON. Chapter 1. The Wigwam Under the Rock The early springtime sunrise was near at hand as Quonab, the last of the Myanos Sinawa, stepped from his sheltered wigwam under the cliff that borders the Asamuk easterly, and, mounting to the lofty brow of the great rock that is its highest pinnacle, he stood in silence, awaiting the first ray of the sun over the sea water that stretches between Connecticut and Seawanaky. His silent prayer to the Great Spirit was ended as a golden beam shot from a long, low cloud-bank over the sea, and Quonab sang a weird Indian song for the rising sun, an invocation to the Day God: "O thou that risest from the low cloud To burn in the all above; I greet thee! I adore thee!" |
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