Iagoo

Role: Indian story-teller · First appears: Iagoo

In Iagoo’s boasts, one evening he claimed a single shot killed a swan, twenty brace of ducks, two loons and the great fish Moshkeenozha. He also boasted that a leaf he had found was large enough to clothe his wife and daughter; he was married to the wife of Iagoo and had the daughter of Iagoo.

On another occasion, Iagoo said he killed and skinned a deer, then carried its carcass while pursuing elks. One day, he related that he found his dogs asleep near Weeng, the Spirit of Sleep’s residence. He roused them but felt the power of sleep himself, and saw Weeng sitting on a tree branch in the form of a giant insect.

Relationship record

Life events

• Iagoo boasted that he killed a swan, twenty brace of ducks, two loons, and Moshkeenozha with one shot.(Iagoo)
  • With: Moshkeenozha
  • “One evening he was sitting in his lodge, on the banks of a river, and hearing the quacking of ducks on the stream, he fired through the lodge door at a venture. He killed a swan that happened to be flying by, and twenty brace of ducks in the stream. But this did not check the force of his shot; they passed on, and struck the heads of two loons, at the moment they were coming up from beneath the water, and even went beyond and killed a most extraordinary large fish called Moshkeenozha.”
• Iagoo boasted that he killed and skinned a deer, then carried its carcass while chasing elks.(Iagoo)
  • “On another occasion he had killed a deer, and after skinning it, was carrying the carcass on his shoulders, when he spied some stately elks on the plain before him.”
• Iagoo related that he found his dogs asleep near Weeng’s residence.(Weeng, the Spirit of Sleep)
  • “At length he came to a spot where he found them asleep, having incautiously ran near the residence of Weeng.”
• Iagoo related that he aroused his dogs but felt the power of somnolency himself.(Weeng, the Spirit of Sleep)
  • “After great exertions he aroused them, but not without having felt the power of somnolency himself.”
• Iagoo related that he saw Weeng sitting on a tree branch in the shape of a giant insect.(Weeng, the Spirit of Sleep)
  • With: Weeng
  • “As he cast his eyes up from the place where the dogs were lying, he saw the Spirit of Sleep sitting upon the branch of a tree.”

Iagoo

• enemies with Moshkeenozha “they passed on, and struck the heads of two loons, at the moment they were coming up from beneath the water, and even went beyond and killed a most extraordinary large fish called Moshkeenozha.”
• married with the wife of Iagoo “a single leaf of which, he averred, was sufficient to make a petticoat and upper garments for his wife and daughter.”
• child: the daughter of Iagoo “a single leaf of which, he averred, was sufficient to make a petticoat and upper garments for his wife and daughter.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends. Made with Rho MD.