Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-11-24
Mrs. Mclaughlin Issues
Book OF Indian Legends
"Myths Of the Sioux" i. the Title Of New
Book Of Indian Legends Written by
Mrs. James Mclaughlin

| Mrs. James Mclaughlin
The Bismarck Tribune recent,
published the following announce
ment of the work of the lates
North Dakota author, Mrs. Marie
Mclaughlin, mother OF Chas. Nc
Laughlin. the newly elected sheriff
of Sioux county. Mrs. McLaugh
lin is we'll known to most of tn,
readers of the Pioneer, having mad'
her home at Fort Yates for man,
years, and is a visitor here otter
now. She now makes her home a
Mclaughlin, South Dakota, where
her son, sibley Mclaughlin, lives
The Tribune review follows n
part:
Mrs. Marie Mclaughlin, wife Of
Major Mclaughlin, in her Myths
of the Sioux" just published from
4 the press of the Bismarck Tribune
has fittingly preserved the imagina-
tive literature of that interesting
race. ~
The stories she has collected, told
in a quaint style, were related tc
her by her mother, Mary Graham
Buisson, to whom she has dedicated
the unique work. The inspiration
which produced this work was gain
ed at her mothers knee.
Mrs. Mclaughlin has done for
the Sioux Indian lore what Grimm
and Anderson did for their people.
The book is for all ages. 1t COM
prises collection of stories, told
Mrs. Mclaughlin by the older men
and women Of the Sioux.
But in the foreword, she gives an
excellent outline of the volume:
Having been born and reared in
an Indian community, I at an early
age acquired a thorough knowledge
|of the Sioux language, and having
lived on Indian reservations for the
past 40 years in q position which
brought me very near to the Indians
whose confidence I possessed, |
have, therefore, had exceptional op-
.porthnities Of learning the legends
and folklore of the Sioux.
'.The stories contained in this lit
tie volume were told me by the old
er men and women Of the Sioux, of
which I made careful notes as re-
lated, knowing that, if not recorded
these tales would be lost to poster
ity by the passing Of the primitive
Indian.
I'm publishing these myths Of
the Sioux" / deem it proper to
state that l am Of one-fourth Sioux
blood. My maternal grandfather,
Captain Duncan Graham, a Scotch
man by birth, who had seen service
in the British army, was one Of a
party of Scotch High]anders who in
1911 arrived in the British North
west by way Of York, Factory, Hud-
son Bay, to found what was known
as the Selkirk Colony, near Lake
Winnipeg. now within the province
Of Manitoba, Canada.
81 was born December 8, 1842,
at Wabasha, Mimi, then Indian
country, and resided thereat until
IA years of age, when was sent to
school at Prairie du Chen, Wis.
II was married to Major James
Mclaughlin at Mendoza, Mimi,
January %, 1864, and resided in
Minnesota until July 1, 1871, when
I accompanied my husband to Dew
lis Lake Agency, North Dakota,
then Dakota territory, where ] re-
mained ten years in most friendly
relations with the Indians Of that
agency My husband was Indian
agent at Devils. Lake Agency, and
in 1881 was transferred to Standing
Rock, on the Missouri river, then a
very important Agency, to take
charge of the Sioux, who had then
but recently surrendered to the milf
tary authorities, and been brought
by steamboat from various points
on the upper Missouri, to be per-
manently located on the Standing
Rock reservation.