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Blackfeet Ethnography and Religion
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Indian Why Stories — Frank B. LindermanFrank B. Linderman's 1915 collection of Blackfeet pourquoi tales told by the elder War Eagle to his grandchildren beside the lodge-fire, explaining the origins of animal markings, fire, and the world's making by Old-Man.The Old North Trail — Walter McClintockWalter McClintock's 1910 first-person account of four years living among the Blackfeet of Montana, covering his adoption by Chief Mad Wolf, the Sun Dance, medicine pipe societies, and Blackfeet myth and song.The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians — Clark WisslerClark Wissler’s 1918 American Museum of Natural History paper on the sun dance of the Blackfoot, chiefly the Piegan, from the vow of the medicine woman and the ceremony of the tongues to the sun pole, the weather dancers, the cutting ceremony and its offerings of flesh, the sun dance songs and the myths that account for the rites.