Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People

Name: Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People
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ISBN: 9780803271098

ISBN-10: 0803271093

ISBN-13: 9780803271098

Edition: 2nd 2003

Authors: George Bird Grinnell, Thedis Berthelson Crowe, George Grinnell

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This collection of powerful stories reveals the complex and wondrous world of the Blackfoot nation in the nineteenth century. The thirty tales transcribed by George Bird Grinnell provide an intimate look into Blackfoot culture and philosophy and remind us of tribal values to be upheld and taught. Classic tales of adventure speak of deeds accomplished, and cultural heroes roam across an arresting Native landscape of legend and history. Ancient stories, captured in oral tradition, cast the shadow of the Blackfoot people far into the past and provide foundation and meaning for their lives in the present. The final section of this book is an insightful overview of the history and culture of the…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 10/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.99" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Introduction


Note


Indians and their Stories


The Peace with the Snakes


The Lost Woman


Adventures of Bull Turns Round


Kutoyis


The Bad Wife


The Lost Children


Mik-a'pi - Red Old Man


Heavy Collar and the Ghost Woman


The Wolf Man


The Fast Runners


Two War Trails


Scarface


Origin of the I-kun-uh'-kah-tsi


Origin of the Medicine Pipe


The Beaver Medicine


The Buffalo Rock


Origin of the Worm Pipe


The Ghosts' Buffalo


The Blackfoot Genesis


The Dog and the Stick


The Bears


The Wonderful Bird


The Race


The Bad Weapons


The Elk


Old Man Doctors


The Rock


The Theft from the Sun


The Fox


Old Man and the Lynx


The Past and the Present


Daily Life and Customs


How the Blackfoot Lived


Social Organization


Hunting


The Blackfoot in War


Religion


Medicine Pipes and Healing


The Blackfoot of To-day