Page:The International Folk-Lore Congress of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, July, 1893.djvu/339

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KATHERINE S. STANBERY.
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in his Pawnee Hero Stories bears such a striking resemblance to the life of Christ that we must look upon it as the modification of an early missionary account.

An analysis of the folk-lore of the American Indian leads to the conclusion that at least their legends and tales are recently borrowed from European sources.