Peboan and Seegwun is a Chippewa allegory.  This is another example of one of Jane Schoolcraft’s translated stories that found its way into Longfellow’s The Song of Hiawatha.  In this case, the storyteller Schoolcraft is translating is her mother, Ozhaguscodaywayquay.  Here we are shown the beauty and reverence of the Chippewa vision of life on … Continue reading Peboan and Seegwun (Winter and Spring)