Stories Of Ancient Times. Origin Of The I : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 104 ORIGIN OF THE I-KUN-UH-KAH-TSI 1 I THE BULL BAND The people had built a great piskun, very high and strong, so that no buffalo could escape; but somehow the buffalo would not jump over the cliff. When driven toward it, they would...
Stories Of Old Man. The Bad Weapons : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 157 THE BAD WEAPONS Once Old Man was fording a river, when the current carried him down stream, and he lost his weapons. He was very hungry, so he took the first wood he could find, and made a bow and arrows, and a handle for his knife...
The Story Of The Three Tribes. The Blackfoot : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 287 THE BLACKFOOT OF TO-DAY In the olden times the Blackfeet were very numerous, and it is said that then they were a strong and hardy people, and few of them were ever sick. Most of the men who died were killed in battle, or died...
Stories Of Adventure. Adventures Of Bull : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 24 ADVENTURES OF BULL TURNS ROUND I Once the camp moved, but one lodge stayed. It belonged to Wolf Tail; and Wolf Tail's younger brother, Bull Turns Round, lived with him. Now their father loved both his sons, but he loved the younger...
The Story Of The Three Tribes. Medicine Pipes : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 276 MEDICINE PIPES AND HEALING The person whom the whites term "medicine man" is called by the Blackfeet "Ni-namp'-skan". Mr. Schultz believes this word to be compounded of "nin'nah", man, and "namp'-ski", horned toad ("Phrynosoma")...
Stories Of Ancient Times. Scarface : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], STORIES OF ANCIENT TIMES p. 92 p. 93 SCARFACE ORIGIN OF THE MEDICINE LODGE I In the earliest times there was no war. All the tribes were at peace. In those days there was a man who had a daughter, a very beautiful girl. Many young men...
Stories Of Ancient Times. The Buffalo Rock : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 125 THE BUFFALO ROCK A small stone, which is usually a fossil shell of some kind, is known by the Blackfeet as I-nis-kim, the buffalo stone. This object is strong medicine, and, as indicated in some of these stories, gives its...
Stories Of Old Man. The Dog And The Stick : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 145 THE DOG AND THE STICK This happened long ago. In those days the people were hungry. No buffalo nor antelope were seen on the prairie. The deer and the elk trails were covered with grass and leaves; not even a rabbit could be found...
Stories Of Adventure. Heavy Collar : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 70 HEAVY COLLAR AND THE GHOST WOMAN The Blood camp was on Old Man's River, where Fort McLeod now stands. A party of seven men started to war toward the Cypress Hills. Heavy Collar was the leader. They went around the Cypress Mountains...
The Story Of The Three Tribes. The Past : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 174 p. 175 THE STORY OF THE THREE TRIBES p. 176 p. 177 THE PAST AND THE PRESENT Fifty years ago the name Blackfoot was one of terrible meaning to the white traveller who passed across that desolate buffalo-trodden waste which lay...
The Story Of The Three Tribes. Hunting : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 226 HUNTING The Blackfoot country probably contained more game and in greater variety than any other part of the continent. Theirs was a land whose physical characteristics presented sharp contrasts. There were far-stretching grassy...
Stories Of Ancient Times. Origin Of The Worm Pipe : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 127 ORIGIN OF THE WORM PIPE There was once a man who was very fond of his wife. After they had been married for some time they had a child, a boy. After that, the woman got sick, and did not get well. The young man did not wish to take...
The Story Of The Three Tribes. Religion : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 256 RELIGION In ancient times the chief god of the Blackfeet--their Creator--was "Napi" (Old Man). This is the word used to indicate any old man, though its meaning is often loosely given as white. An analysis of the word "Napi"...
Stories Of Old Man. Old Man And The Lynx : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 171 OLD MAN AND THE LYNX Old Man was travelling round over the prairie, when he saw a lot of prairie-dogs sitting in a circle. They had built a fire, and were sitting around it. Old Man went toward them, and when he got near them, he...
Stories Of Adventure. The Bad Wife : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 39 THE BAD WIFE I There was once a man who had but one wife. He was not a chief, but a very brave warrior. He was rich, too, so he could have had plenty of wives if he wished; but he loved his wife very much, and did not want any more...
Stories Of Adventure. The Peace With The Snakes : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 1 STORIES OF ADVENTURE p. 2 p. 3 THE PEACE WITH THE SNAKES I In those days there was a Piegan chief named Owl Bear. He was a great chief, very brave and generous. One night he had a dream: he saw many dead bodies of the enemy lying...
Note : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. v BLACKFOOT LODGE TALES p. vi p. vii We were sitting about the fire in the lodge on Two Medicine. Double Runner, Small Leggings, Mad Wolf, and the Little Blackfoot were smoking and talking, and I was writing in my note-book. As I put...
The Story Of The Three Tribes. Social Organization : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 208 SOCIAL ORGANIZATION The social organization of the Blackfeet is very simple. The three tribes acknowledged a blood relationship with each other, and, while distinct, still considered themselves a nation. In this confederation, it...
The Story Of The Three Tribes. Daily Life : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 181 DAILY LIFE AND CUSTOMS Indians are usually represented as being a silent, sullen race, seldom speaking, and never laughing nor joking. However true this may be in regard to some tribes, it certainly was not the case with most...
Stories Of Ancient Times. The Ghosts Buffalo : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 132 THE GHOSTS BUFFALO A long time ago there were four Blackfeet, who went to war against the Crees. They travelled a long way, and at last their horses gave out, and they started back toward their homes. As they were going along they...
Stories Of Adventure. Kut O' Yis : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 29 KT-O-YIS Long ago, down where Two Medicine and Badger Creeks come together, there lived an old man. He had but one wife and two daughters. One day there came to his camp a young man who was very brave and a great hunter. The old m...
Stories Of Adventure. The Lost Children : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 50 THE LOST CHILDREN Once a camp of people stopped on the bank of a river. There were but a few lodges of them. One day the little children in the camp crossed the river to play on the other side. For some time they stayed near...
The Story Of The Three Tribes : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 301 INDEX Above Persons, 259. Adoption of captives, 254. Adultery, penalty for, 220. Adventure, Stories of, 1. Adventures of Bull Turns Round, 24. Affirmation, solemn form of, 188. "Ah-kaik-sum-iks", 209. "Ah-kai-yi-ko-ka-kin-iks", 209...
Stories Of Old Man. The Elk : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 158 THE ELK Old Man was very hungry. He had been a long time without food, and was thinking how he could get something to eat, when he saw a band of elk on a ridge. So he went up to them and said, "Oh, my brothers, I am lonesome...
The Story Of The Three Tribes. The Blackfoot. Part 02 : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 242 THE BLACKFOOT IN WAR The Blackfeet were a warlike people. How it may have been in the old days, before the coming of the white men, we do not know. Very likely, in early times, they were usually at peace with neighboring tribes...
Title Page : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], BLACKFOOT LODGE TALES THE STORY OF A PRAIRIE PEOPLE GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1892] Formatted , July 2007. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published prior to January 1st...
Stories Of Old Man. The Blackfoot Genesis : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 135 STORIES OF OLD MAN p. 136 p. 137 THE BLACKFOOT GENESIS All animals of the Plains at one time heard and knew him, and all birds of the air heard and knew him. All things that he had made understood him, when he spoke to them...
Stories Of Old Man. The Theft From The Sun : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 167 THE THEFT FROM THE SUN Once Old Man was travelling around, when he came to the Sun's lodge, and the Sun asked him to stay a while. Old Man was very glad to do so. One day the meat was all gone, and the Sun said, "Kyi"! Old M...
Stories Of Adventure. The Wolf Man : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 78 THE WOLF-MAN There was once a man who had two bad wives. They had no shame. The man thought if he moved away where there were no other people, he might teach these women to become good, so he moved his lodge away off on the prairie...
Stories Of Old Man. The Rock : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 165 THE ROCK Once Old Man was travelling, and becoming tired he sat down on a rock to rest. After a while he started to go on, and because the sun was hot he threw his robe over the rock, saying: "Here, I give you my robe, because you...
Stories Of Old Man. Old Man Doctors : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 159 OLD MAN DOCTORS A piskun had been built, and many buffalo had been run in and killed. The camp was full of meat. Great sheets of it hung in the lodges and on the racks outside; and now the women, having cut up all the meat, were...
Stories Of Adventure. Mik A'pired Old Man : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 61 MIK-API--RED OLD MAN I It was in the valley of "It fell on them" 1 Creek, near the mountains, that the Pikni were camped when Mik-api went to war. It was far back, in the days of stone knives, long before the white people had come...
Stories Of Adventure. The Fast Runners : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 81 THE FAST RUNNERS Once, long ago, the antelope and the deer met on the prairie. At this time both of them had galls and both dew claws. They began to talk together, and each was telling the other what he could do. Each one told how...
Stories Of Old Man. The Race : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 155 THE RACE Once Old Man was travelling around, when he heard some very queer singing. He had never heard anything like this before, and looked all around to see who it was. At last he saw it was the cottontail rabbits, singing...
Stories Of Adventure. Two War Trails : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 82 TWO WAR TRAILS I Many years ago there lived in the Blood camp a boy named Screech Owl (A-tsi-tsi). He was rather a lonely boy, and did not care to go with other boys. He liked better to be by himself. Often he would go off alone...
Stories Of Old Man. The Bears : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 149 THE BEARS Now Old Man was walking along, and far off he saw many wolves; and when he came closer, he saw there the chief of the wolves, a very old one, and sitting around him were all his children. Old Man said, "Pity me, Wolf...
Stories Of Ancient Times. Origin Of The Medicine : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 113 ORIGIN OF THE MEDICINE PIPE Thunder--you have heard him, he is everywhere. He roars in the mountains, he shouts far out on the prairie. He strikes the high rocks, and they fall to pieces. He hits a tree, and it is broken in slivers...
Stories Of Ancient Times. The Beaver Medicine : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 117 THE BEAVER MEDICINE This story goes back many years, to a time before the Indians went to war against each other. Then there was peace among all the tribes. They met, and did not kill each other. They had no guns and they had no...
Stories Of Old Man. The Wonderful Bird : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 153 THE WONDERFUL BIRD One day, as Old Man was walking about in the woods, he saw something very queer. A bird was sitting on the limb of a tree making a strange noise, and every time it made this noise, its eyes would go out of its...
Indians And Their Stories : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. viii p. ix INDIANS AND THEIR STORIES The most shameful chapter of American history is that in which is recorded the account of our dealings with the Indians. The story of our government's intercourse with this race is an unbroken...
Stories Of Old Man. The Fox : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 169 THE FOX One day Old Man went out hunting and took the fox with him. They hunted for several days, but killed nothing. It was nice warm weather in the late fall. After they had become very hungry, as they were going along one day...
The Story Of The Three Tribes. How The Blackfoot : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 196 HOW THE BLACKFOOT LIVED The primitive clothing of the Blackfeet was made of the dressed skins of certain animals. Women seldom wore a head covering. Men, however, in winter generally used a cap made of the skin of some small animal...
Stories Of Adventure. The Lost Woman : * "Blackfoot Lodge Tales", by George Bird Grinnell, [1892], p. 13 THE LOST WOMAN I A long time ago the Blackfeet were camped on Backfat Creek. There was in the camp a man who had but one wife, and he thought a great deal of her. He never wanted to have two wives. As time passed they had a child...