Identifier: redyellowblackta00fahs (find matches)
Title: Red, yellow and black : tales of Indians, Chinese and Africans
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Fahs, Sophia Blanche Lyon, 1876-
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Publisher: New York : Methodist Book Concern
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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y tapped the maple trees and 41 RED, YELLOW, AND BLACK made sugar. There they talked to themof God. One winter the missionaries with a fewof the Christian chiefs decided to walknorth through the paths in the forest tothe camp of their brother red men, theSenecas. It was the time of the yearlymid-winter feast. For a whole week thesered brothers had been feasting and dancingand sacrificing to the spirits to win theirfavor for another year. In the big longcouncil house they had danced the beardance, the false-face dance,f the dance ofthe beans, the buffalo dance, the pigeondance, the fish dance, the great-featherdance, the pumpkin dance, and otherdances. Morning, noon, and night theydanced. None seemed to tire. In betweendances some old warrior would tell thedeeds of braves of long ago, and somewould tell stories of the great turtle, orof the witch buffalo or of stone giants.Outside the council house big kettles ofvenison and pork and raccoon hungover crackling fires. About these ket- 42
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