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  1. Title Page
  2. Chapter 1: Impressions of an Indian Childhood
  3. Chapter 2: The School Days of An Indian Girl
  4. Chapter 3: An Indian Teacher Among Indians
  5. Chapter 4: The Great Spirit
  6. Chapter 5: The Soft-Hearted Sioux
  7. Chapter 6: The Trial Path
  8. Chapter 7: A Warrior's Daughter
  9. Chapter 8: A Dream of Her Grandfather
  10. Chapter 9: The Widespread Enigma of Blue-Star Woman
  11. Chapter 10: America's Indian Problem
  12. Testimonial

This Book should be in every home

Old Indian Legends 25 Seminole Avenue, Forest Hill, L. I., N. Y., August 25, 1919.

Dear Zitkala-Sa:

I thank you for your book on Indian legends. I have read them with exquisite pleasure. Like all folk tales they mirror the child life of the world. There is in them a note of wild, strange music.

You have translated them into our language in a way that will keep them alive in the hearts of men. They are so young, so fresh, so full of the odors of the virgin forest untrod by the foot of white man! The thoughts of your people seem dipped in the colors of the rainbow, palpitant with the play of winds, eerie with the thrill of a spirit-world unseen but felt and feared.

Your tales of birds, beast, tree and spirit can not but hold captive the hearts of all children. They will kindle in their young minds that eternal wonder which creates poetry and keeps life fresh and eager. I wish you and your little book of Indian tales all success..

I am always, Sincerely your friend, (Signed) HELEN KELLER.

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