The Myth of Hiawatha and Other Oral Legends

The Myth of Hiawatha and Other Oral Legends is a collection of Native American myths and legends collected and edited by Henry Schoolcraft. This book is one of the most authentic collections of Indian myths because Schoolcraft faithfully recored every world of storytellers. He presents this collection as transcripts of the thought and invention of the aboriginal mind with the intention to bring closer Native American culture and tradition to a common reader.

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793 – 1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River. He is also noted for his major six-volume study of Native Americans published in the 1850s.