[{"id": "18495", "words": "115524", "extension": ".txt", "flesch": "75", "author": "Heming, Arthur", "title": "The Drama of the Forests: Romance and Adventure", "date": null, "keywords": "animal; bay; bear; beaver; camp; canoe; caribou; children; company; cut; day; days; dogs; end; factor; feet; fire; forest; fort; fox; fur; game; going; good; great; gun; half; hand; head; home; hoo; house; hudson; hunter; hunting; indian; koo; lake; left; life; little; man; men; miles; moose; morning; night; northern; open; order; place; river; round; set; skin; small; snow; son; time; tracks; trader; trail; trap; trees; use; water; way; white; wife; wind; winter; wolf; wolverine; women; woods; work; years", "summary": "In winter time man, too, follows a trail in the same way, notwithstanding that he is generally handicapped by a pair of snowshoes. With other men and two horses he speedily returned, rigged up a stage swung between the horses, and laying Marasty thereon, transported him through the bush to his home.", "mime": "text/plain"}, {"id": "21244", "words": "81151", "extension": ".txt", "flesch": "76", "author": "Young, Egerton Ryerson", "title": "By Canoe and Dog Train Among The Cree and Salteaux Indians", "date": null, "keywords": "camp; canoe; children; christian; church; cold; country; day; days; dogs; fire; fish; food; god; good; great; head; heart; help; home; house; ice; indians; know; lake; land; left; life; like; love; man; men; miles; missionary; night; people; place; poor; rest; river; snow; spirit; things; time; way; wife; words; work; years; young", "summary": "We found out, before we had been there many days, that we had much to learn about Indian customs and habits and modes of thought. For many days I needed no other themes.", "mime": "text/plain"}, {"id": "23270", "words": "46217", "extension": ".txt", "flesch": "74", "author": "Young, Egerton Ryerson", "title": "On the Indian Trail Stories of Missionary Work among Cree and Salteaux Indians", "date": null, "keywords": "book; canoe; christian; course; day; days; dog; dogs; feast; fish; food; god; good; great; home; house; indians; left; like; man; men; missionary; night; number; people; place; river; sandy; things; time; trail; way; wife; words; work; years; young", "summary": "My guide and dog-drivers were next to me on my left, and the circle was completed with other Indian men. On the beautiful Playgreen lake and other similar places, he enjoyed it amazingly; but when he started off on his missionary touring, the Indians, who are the best judges of these things urged him not to attempt in that beautiful, but unreliable boat, to run the wild rapids of the mighty Nelson or other great rivers.", "mime": "text/plain"}, {"id": "34495", "words": "25107", "extension": ".txt", "flesch": "80", "author": "Kingston, William Henry Giles", "title": "Rob Nixon, the Old White Trader: A Tale of Central British North America", "date": null, "keywords": "day; distance; friend; god; good; ground; horse; hunter; indian; life; man; men; nixon; people; peter; rifle; time; tom; way; young", "summary": "The young especially are surprised to hear that old men have forgotten what they learned in their youth, that they neglect to pray, to read the Bible, to think about God and their own souls; but let them be assured that if once they give up the habit of praying, of studying God's holy Word, of obeying His commands, there is one ever ready to persuade them that there is no harm in this neglect; that it will save them much trouble; and that it is far more manly to neglect prayers, to be irreligious and profane, than to love, serve, and obey their Maker. Outside the enclosure were numerous persons, chiefly women and old men and boys, the latter armed with bows and arrows, and the former having cloaks or boughs.", "mime": "text/plain"}, {"id": "606", "words": "30752", "extension": ".txt", "flesch": "91", "author": "Linderman, Frank Bird", "title": "Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire", "date": null, "keywords": "day; eagle; fire; indian; know; lodge; man; night; people; sun; time; war; water; white; world", "summary": "I have heard white men say that they had seen Indians use them; but I have never found an Indian that ever used them himself, or knew of their having been used by his people. Then I saw the whole world at war, and many flags of white men were in this land of ours.", "mime": "text/plain"}, {"id": "6983", "words": "70782", "extension": ".txt", "flesch": "77", "author": "Wilson, Edward Francis", "title": "Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians", "date": null, "keywords": "bishop; boat; boys; building; chapter; chief; children; church; day; days; england; english; evening; father; fire; garden; god; good; home; house; indians; institution; lake; man; men; miles; missionary; morning; mrs; new; night; people; place; point; prayer; river; room; round; sarnia; sault; school; service; shingwauk; time; visit; water; way; white; wife; work; years", "summary": "The verse Suffer little children to come unto Me, he said through. A most appropriate name, for his presence always seemed to bring light and happiness; he was always so cheerful, so ready to help, so self- denying; grown people and little children were equally his friends.", "mime": "text/plain"}, {"id": "6988", "words": "43029", "extension": ".txt", "flesch": "78", "author": "Blackbird, Andrew J.", "title": "History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author", "date": null, "keywords": "baw; brother; children; chippewas; country; daw; day; father; gaw; good; indians; island; kaw; language; little; man; maw; michigan; naw; ottawas; people; pin; place; saw; school; spirit; state; tchi; thou; time; traverse; wau; wob; yaw; years; zhe", "summary": "Au-pe-tchi ke-zhaw-tay, it is very hot Ke-tchi no-din, it is blowing hard. We came to Mackinac Island in the fall of 1840, and there I met my father and all my relations, and great many Indians as they were about receiving their annual payment from the Government.", "mime": "text/plain"}, {"id": "8122", "words": "41716", "extension": ".txt", "flesch": "85", "author": "Gordon, Hanford Lennox", "title": "Legends of the Northwest", "date": null, "keywords": "brave; chief; dakotas; dark; deer; earth; eyes; face; fair; father; feast; feet; fire; footnote; forest; hair; hand; heart; hunter; lake; land; lodge; love; men; moon; mother; night; o'er; panther; red; river; sacred; sea; snow; spirit; star; sun; tall; tamd\u00f3ka; teepee; voice; wak\u00e2wa; warrior; waters; white; wild; wind; winona; winter; wiw\u00e2st\u00e8; years", "summary": "Then tall Wak\u00e2wa arose and said: Brave warriors, listen, and give due heed. The Dakotas had no Wakan Tanka--or Wakan-p\u00e9ta--fire spirit--till whitemen imported them.", "mime": "text/plain"}]