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Weld, Laenas G. ; Rich, Joseph W. ; Flom, George T. Prefatory note. Coll. 

 Meskwaki Manuscripts, Publ. State Hist. Soc. Iowa. 1907: v-vii. 



Remarks on the alphabet employed by Cha ka ta ko si (ordinarily known as "Chuck") in 

 volume; various remarks on the phonetic elements of Fox. Not of much value. The 

 fact that j is used for the ch sound does not point to French influence as is stated: j in French 

 has the value of z in azure; while j in the "Manuscripts" certainly for the most part has the 

 phonetic value of dtc. It is more likely that the j is a reflection of English j, heard in a slightly 

 faulty manner. The alphabet is certainly not in common use among the Foxes; and I suspect 

 Chuck invented it. The Indian texts contained in the volume can be used by the specialist. 



folklore; and mythology 



Blair, Emma Helen. Indian Tribes of the Upper Missisipi Valley and the Great 

 Lakes Region. 2: 142-145. 1912. 



The volume contains Marston's letter to Rev. Dr. Jediah Morse, dated November, 1820; 

 originally printed in the latter's report to the Secretary of War, dated November, 1821, 

 printed at New Haven, 1822. The supposed historic statement that the Shawnees were 

 descended from the Sauk nation by a (Sauk or Fox?) chief, is nothing more than a (Sauk or 

 Fox?) variant of the "Bear-foot Sulkers," on which see Jones, Fox Texts: 30, 31. To-day the 

 Shawnee tell it of the Kickapoo and vice versa (Michelson, information). 



Busby, AlliE B. Two summers among the Musquakies. i886. 



Contains extract from Isaac Galland's Chronicles, etc. See below. 



Fulton, A. R. [Initials stand for?] The Red Men of Iowa. 1882. 



Contains extract from Isaac Galland's Chronicles, etc. See below. 



Galland, Isaac. Chronicles of Northamerican savages. 1835. 



Complete copies are apparently impossible to obtain. Has important information on the 

 gentes and tribal dual division. Part of this cannot be substantiated to-day. Portions re- 

 printed in Annals of Iowa, 1869, under the title of Indian Tribes of Ike West (especially 347- 

 366), also in Fulton's The Red Men of Iowa, 1882 (131-134), also in Busby's Two summers 

 among the Musquakies, 1886 (52-63). 



Jones, William. Episodes in the culture-hero myth of the Sauks and Foxes. Joum. 



Amer. Folk-Lore 15: 225-239. 1901. 

 Jones, William. Fox texts. 1907. 



Most important of all publications on the subject. 



Jones, William. Notes on the Fox Indians. Journ. Amer. Folk-Lore 24: 209-237. 

 1911. 



Contains much matter supplementary to his Fox Texts. 



Marsh, Cutting. Letter to Rev. David Greene, dated March 25, 1835. Printed 

 in Wise. Hist. Coll. 15: 104-155. 1900. 



Traditions regarding the Me-shaum (phonetically mt'cami^i'"), We-sah-kah (Wi'sA'ka'^", 

 the culture-hero), the death of his brother, the flood, etc. See pp. 130-134. Most of the 

 information given can be substantiated to-day. The parts of the letter appurtenant to Fox 

 ethnology, folklore and mythology have been reprinted in the appendix to M. R. Harring- 

 ton's Sacred bundles of the Sac and Fox Indians (1914). 



Marston, Major M. Letter to Rev. Dr. Morse. 1820. Printed in Morse's Re- 

 port to the Secretary of War, 1822. 



See p. 122 for a supposed historic statement which is nothing more than legendary: vide 

 supra under Blair. 



Michelson, Truman. Notes on the folklore and mythology of the Fox Indians. 



Amer. Anthrop., n. ser. 15: 699, 700. 1913. 



Points out that Fox folklore and mythology consists of native woodland and plains as well as 



European elements. 



Michelson, Truman. Ritualistic origin myths of the Fox Indians. Journ. Wash. 



Acad. Sci. 6:209-211. 1916. 

 Michelson, Truman. Some general notes on the Fox Indians. Part II: Phonetics, 



folklore and mythology. Joiu-n. Wash. Acad. Sci. 9: 521-528. 1919. 



General discussion of Fox folklore and mythology. 



Owen, Mary Alicia. Folklore of the Musquakie Indians of North America. 1904. 



See the review by Michelson in Curr. Anthrop. Lit. 2: 233-237. 1913. 



Steward, John Fletcher. Lost Maramech and earliest Chicago. 1903. 



A num'aer of stories are scattered throughout the text. 57-59: Bull Head and Elk; Wa-sa-ri 

 misprint for Wa-sa-si, or a corruption of some sort; phonetically wA'se'si'^". Michelson 

 has a variant of this in his unpublished collection. 59-62: Wi-sa-ka and the Dancing Ducks; 

 variant to Jones' Fox Texts, 278-289; a Sauk version collected by Michelson agrees in part 

 quite closely with tale collected by Steward. 62-65: They who went in pursuit of the Bear; 

 variant to Jones' Fox Texts, 70-75. 345-351; Wa-pa-sai-ya; variant to Jones' Fox Texts, 

 8-31, and his Notes on the Fox Indians, 231-233; two unpublished versions collected by Michel- 

 son agree more closely with those of Jones than with that of Steward. 



