MS 3022 Fox and Sauk native texts and English translations of myths, traditions, parables, stories of fasting, visions, and dreams, Wisaka stories, and prayers
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content: A thunderer comes to the Home of a Man and Wife
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content: A Youth that was Fasting was killed by the Sioux
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content: One that had fasted overlong became a Fish
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content: One that fasted overlong
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content: An Old Woman falls in Love with her Son-in-Law, and for that reason drowns her Daughter
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content: The Little-Creatures-of-Caprice ensnare the Sun
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content: The People-of-a-Far-off-Country
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content: The Woman and the Dog
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content: The Reason why a Young Marred Woman ceased from...
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content: Two Maidens who played the Harlot with Each Other
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content: An Ojibwa Maiden offered a Prayer to the Bull-Frogs, asking that an Ugly-Looking Man should die
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content: Raccoon plays Dead in order that he may thus obtain Crawfishes to eat
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content: The Raccoon and the Wolf
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content: The Grizzly and the Skunk
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content: Wisaka rolls Himself Downhill in order that he may catch the Turkeys
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content: The Red-Earths went to where Wisaka was
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content: Wisaka is vanquished in a Contest with a Trader
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content: Wisaka goes to visit the Skunk
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content: Wisaka visits the Beaver
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content: Wisaka goes to visit the Duck
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content: The Story of Wisaka
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content: Wisaka goes to visit the Kingfisher
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content: Painter's Dream
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content: The Words spoken to the Dead
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content: When Boys burn Tobacco as an Offering to the Thunderers
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content: When a Boy burns an Offering of Tobacco to a Snake
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content: The Turtle brings Ruin upon Himself
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content: The Turtle is loaned Medicine by Wis'ka to win a Foot-Race
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content: The Woodpecker feeds Wisaka
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content: Wisaka catches Ducks by the Neck and strangles Them
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content: When Wisaka ate the Artichoke
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content: Wisaka goes to visit his Younger Brother the Skunk
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content: Wisaka goes to visit his Younger Brother the Beaver
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content: Wisaka goes to visit his Little Brother the Duck
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content: An Opossum becomes disliked because of his Pretty Tail
name: label: Collector
content: Jones, William, 1871-1909
topic: label: Topic
content: Folklore -- Fox
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content: Language and languages -- Documentation
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content: Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox
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content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Collector
content: Jones, William, 1871-1909
culture: label: Culture
content: Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox)
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content: Fox
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content: Sauk
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content: In the introduction Jones states: "This particular body of material is the peculiar property of the Foxes of Iowa, and with some exceptions it is told in their own dialect; the exceptions are in the dialect of the Sauks. It forms part of a mass of information obtained during the summers of 1901 and 1902."
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content: 3 Notebooks
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dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS3022
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content: Archival materials
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content: Notebooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogates are available online.
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Published by Jones as Fox texts, Publications of the American Ethnological Society, Volume 1, 1907.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: These notebooks contain 36 of the 59 published stories. Volume I: pages in notebook 4-13, 14-18, A thunderer comes to the Home of a Man and Wife, pages in published text page 175. 19-26, A youth that was Fasting was killed by the Sioux, page 187. 27-29, One that had fasted overlong became a Fish, page 183. 30-33, One that fasted overlong, page 185. 34-47, An Old Woman falls in love with her Son-in-Law, and for that reason drowns her Daughter, page 101. 48-49, The Little-Creatures-of-Caprice ensnare the Sun, page 79. 50-53, The People-of-a-Far-off-Country, page 75. 54-56, The Woman and the Dog, page 39. 57-59, The Reason why a Young Married Woman ceased from..., page 139. 60-62, Two Maidens who played the Harlot with Each Other, page 151. 63-67, An Ojibwa Maiden offered a Prayer to the Bull-Frogs, asking that an Ugly-Looking Man should die, page 67. 68-73, A Raccoon plays Dead in order that he may thus obtain Crawfishes to eat, page 131. 74-88, The Raccoon and the Wolf, page 121. 89-100, The Grizzly and the Skunk, page 113.
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content: Volume 2 contents: Pages in notebook 2-10, Wisaka rolls Himself Downhill in order that he may catch the Turkeys. (Sauk tale), published page numbers 289. 11-16, The Red-Earths went to where Wisaka was (Sauk and Fox), page 333. 17-24, Wisaka is vanquished in a Contest with a Trader (Sauk), page 297. 24-31, Wisaka goes to visit the Skunk (Sauk), page 239. 32-39, Wisaka visits the Beaver (Sauk), page 229. 40-45, Wisaka goes to visit the Duck (Sauk), page 257. 46-52, Wisaka goes to visit the Kingfisher, page 263. 53-85, The Story of Wisaka (Sauk), page 337. 86-106, Note by Jones: "Ceremonial story belonging to the preceding." 107-114, Painter's Dream (Fox), page 207. 114-115, The Words spoken to the Dead (Sauk), page 383. 116, When Boys burn Tobacco as an Offering to the Thunderers, page 381. 117, When a Boy burns an Offering of Tobacco to a Snake, page 381.
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content: Volume 3 Contents: Pages in notebook 2-24, The Turtle brings Ruin upon Himself, published page number 315. 24-42, The Turtle is loaned Medicine by Wis'ka to win a Foot-Race, page 301. 43-48, The Woodpecker feeds Wisaka, page 269. 49-61, Wisaka catches Ducks by the Neck and strangles Them, page 279. 62-68, When Wisaka ate the Artichoke, page 273. 69-84, Wisaka goes to visit his Younger Brother the Skunk, page 245. 85-92, Wisaka goes to visit his Younger Brother the Beaver, page 235. 93-98, Wisaka goes to visit his Little Brother the Duck, page 261. 99-100, An Opossum becomes disliked because of his Pretty Tail, page 111.