The following experimental digital documentary poem is composed of citations of William Ellery Leonard's new verse translation of the Old English poem Beowulf (1923), George Gales's Upper Mississippi: or, Historical Sketches of the Mound-Builders, The Indian Tribes, and the Progress of Civilization in the North-West (1867), and "The Spirit Raccoon," a Ho-Chunk narrative of Lake Mendota by a storyteller once known, collected by Charles E. Brown and the Folklore Section of the Federal Workers' Project in Wisconsin in Wisconsin Indian Place Legends (1936).
When this MOUND web page is loaded and/or reloaded, server-side code selects and loads a random collection of lines from a relational database of citations:
They gave the wealth of earlmen to earth for to hold.
Religious superstitions of the race, and that, as most heathen.
There is another version of this story in which the.
The terror of the raider, captivity and shame.
Whirling Thunder, Hole-in-the-Day, Clear Sky, Screamer, etc.
Ceased. It returned again the moment he ventured into shallower.
And with battle-bucklers, as his prayer had been.
Their burial MOUNDS were in imitation of the animal whose name.
To a wooded point on the eastern shore of Lake Mendota.
And his Wife, with hair bound, her song of sorrow said.
Totems, like the modern Indians; and secondly, that unlike the.
Many centuries ago two W**nebago hunters near the ford of.
And to his kin the kindest, and keenest for renown.
Some have supposed that they were intended to represent.
And slept. After a while, the Indian who had eaten the flesh.
