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.