HOW THE STORIES CAME TO BE
Out of the moons of long ago, these stories have come. Then every tribe of the Iroquois had its story-teller.
When the Old Man of the North came out of his lodge, and the forests and rivers of the Red Children grew white with his breath, these story-tellers wandered from wigwam to wigwam.
Seated on warm skins by the fire, the story-teller would exclaim, "Hanio!" This meant, "Come, gather round, and I will tell a...
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