Ms. Charles shares this legend, basing it on a European retelling of an Iroquois legend.
A Seneca tribe lives along the Niagara River and enjoys the beauty of the land. Then a sickness descends upon their tribe, killing even chief's wife. His daughter, Lelawala, offers herself as a sacrifice and discovers the cause of the sickness. She ultimately helps the tribe destroy the source of the sickness, giving her people the life they had remembered.
-Borrowed from the library.
*The Maid of the Mist is named after this legend.
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