Lone Ranger Sidekick Tonto Comics: # 11, # 12, # 13, # 15, # 17

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INDIAN LEGENDS

Long before the white man brought wheat and corn to the western
Indians, those near the northern lakes lived on wild rice which
they harvested in canoes by beating the tall brown stalks with their
paddles.

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This legend of the Menomini tribe tells where the wild rice came
from.

Many, many moons ago, Nanabush, a Good
Spirit, came to earth to make the first Me-
nomini. In four days, by working magic spells
upon a bear, he transformed it into the first
Menomini brave, whom he named She-
katcheke.

Nanabush made Shekatcheke head of the Menomini bear society
so that he would remember and be grateful. He took the Indian to
the river and gave it into his hands with all its fish, its great beds
of wild rice, and the sugar trees which grew along its banks.
Nanabush told the first Menomini that the tribe would always have
the wild rice no matter how the world changed.

When the tribe moved from the Menomini River to Lake Winnebago
after the white man came, there was no wild rice growing in the
lake. Yet, after the tribe had lived there a few years, most of the
wild rice disappeared from the river but grew everywhere in the
shallows of Lake Winnebago. Had not the Good Spirit, Nanabush,
promised that there would always be wild rice?

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