Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire

The great Northwest-that wonderful frontier that called to itself a world's hardiest spirits-is rapidly becoming a settled country; and before the light of civilizing influences, the blanket-Indian has trailed the buffalo over the divide that time has set between the pioneer and the crowd. With his passing we have lost much of the aboriginal folk-lore, rich in its fairy-like characters, and its relation to the lives of a most warlike people.