Blackfeet Indian Stories

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The Blackfeet were hunters, trekking from one place to another on barefoot. They made use of stone, wood, or bone, wore clothes from animal skins, and stayed in camps protected by pelts. Dogs, their only domesticated animals, were made as creatures of load to bring little bundles and tug weightless piles.

Blackfeet Indian Stories include: Two Fast Runners; The Wolf Man; Kut-O-Yis´, The Blood Boy; The Dog and the Root Digger; The Camp of the Ghosts; The Buffalo Stone; How the Thunder Pipe Came; Cold Maker’s Medicine; The All Comrades Societies; The Bulls Society; The Other Societies; The First Medicine Lodge; The Buffalo-Painted Lodges; Mika´Pi-Red Old Man; Red Robe’s Dream; The Blackfeet Creation; Old Man Stories; The Wonderful Bird; The Rabbit’s Medicine; The Lost Elk Meat; The Rolling Rock; Bear and Bullberries; The Theft from the Sun; The Smart Woman Chief; Bobcat and Birch Tree; The Red-Eyed Duck; The Ancient Blackfeet.

George Bird Grinnell was a U. S. anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and author. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and finished his studies from Yale University with a degree in B.A. in 1870 and a Ph.D. in 1880. Primarily majoring in zoology, he was a notable early conservationist and student of Native American life. George has been remarkable for his encouragement on public opinion and on legislature to conserve the American bison.

George Bird Grinnell had a wide interaction with the environment, animals and Native Americans of the northern savannas, beginning with being part of the final immense hunt of the Pawnee in 1872. He devoted several years studying the natural history of the region. As a former student, he went together with Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer’s 1874 Black Hills excursion as a naturalist. He flagged a similar engagement to the disastrous and unfortunate 1876 Little Big Horn excursion.
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