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211 "How the Indians get to like whiskey" ('An Ojibway Legend')

One day a squaw went to gather wood and she saw a white man [?] something against a tree and the drips flew out in all directions and she was frightened and hid. and went to her tribe and told them what she had seen. The next day the indians with their bows and arrows crept up to surround and capture the white man. and as they crept round they finally discovered that they in turn were surrounded and they found that the bright sticks the white men had were guns and that they were captured by the white men. who tried to make friends of the indians and they set food before them but the indians would not eat. as they told each other that the white men would kill the indian with poison and after several days they gave the indians an ox. and. they would eat as it was killed by themselves.. Then they gave them salt and one of the indians more venturesome than the rest. ventured to taste it. but it did not please him and he spit it out. finally the white men offered him whiskey. and the other indians tried to keep him from drinking it but he said if it killed him all right. and he took a drink and it was so good. he took another. and then he began to rave and talk and the indians got afraid of him. and then he drank some more and got dead drunk and the indians thought he was dead and they were about to bury him. when he came to and told them all how good it was and they all then tried it and they were pleased and made friends with the white men.

Heaven (An Ojibway Legend.)

Once an indian died and after a time he was sent back to the earth. to tell the indians not to accept the white mens religions as there was not the same heaven for them both. that in one room of heaven were the indians that had Joined the Roman Catholic church. and in an other the others. and those that were Catholics were as he said on the bank of a river digging roots. to live on. because they had not [?]. and the Manito made them work and they were arranged in rows one above the other. and there was a drum there but no one was drumming yet the drums was making a great noise. And the catholic indians had their nails all worn off from digging roots. For this reason the Indian will not accept the white man's religion as it makes them work to hard after death."