Connelley William Elsey. Wyandot Folk-Lore

Topeka, Kansas: Crane & Company, Publishers, 1890. — 116 p. — (Twentieth Century Classics and School Readings, Vol. 1, No. 3)."Twenty years ago, seeing that no collection of the folklore of this interesting people had ever been attempted, I began to gather and record such of it as I could find. Most of it had then been lost by the tribe. This will not seem strange when it is known that Wyandots were even at that time of more than one-half white blood. There is not so much as a half-blood Wyandot now living. The last full-blood Wyandot died in Canada about 1820. I began the work at a most fortunate time. There were then living many very old Wyandots who remembered much of their tribal history and folk-lore. These are now dead, with but a single exception. The generation now living could furnish no folk-lore of value. Few of them speak their language. Not half a dozen of them can speak the pure Wyandot. Their reservation near Seneca, Missouri, in the Indian Territory, is not different from the welltilled portions of our country. They are good farmers, and have schools and churches. Stih-yeh'-stah, or Captain Bull-Head, was the last pagan Wyandot; he died in Wyandotte county, Kansas, about the year 1860."