Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park BY JAMES WILLARD SCHULTZ _With Illustrations_ [Illustration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1916 COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY JAMES WILLARD SCHULTZ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published April 1916_ The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS U . S . A [Illustration: THE NARROWS, UPPER ST. MARY'S LAKE, WITH BARING'S BASIN IN THE BACKGROUND _Page 214_] TO LOUIS WARREN HILL, ESQ. TRUE FRIEND TO MY BLACKFEET PEOPLE, AND THE ONE WHO HAS DONE MORE THAN ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL, OR ANY ORGANIZATION, TO MAKE THE WONDERS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK ACCESSIBLE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, SEPTEMBER 10, 1915. Contents I. TWO MEDICINE 1 HUGH MONROE 1 THE WOMAN WHO EARNED A MAN'S NAME 12 THE STORY OF THE THUNDER MEDICINE 23 II. PU-NAK´-IK-SI (CUTBANK) 43 HOW MOUNTAIN CHIEF FOUND HIS HORSES 49 WHITE FUR AND HIS BEAVER CLAN 59 THE STORY OF THE BAD WIFE 85 OLD MAN AND THE WOMAN 98 III. KI-NUK´-SI IS-SI-SAK´-TA (LITTLE RIVER) 110 OLD MAN AND THE WOLVES 112 NEW ROBE, THE RESCUER 129 IV. PUHT-O-MUK-SI-KIM-IKS (THE LAKES INSIDE): ST. MARY'S LAKES 146 THE STORY OF THE FIRST HORSES 158 ONE HORN, SHAMER OF CROWS 182 THE ELK MEDICINE CEREMONY 199 NA-WAK´-O-SIS (THE STORY OF TOBACCO) 216 V. IKS-I´-KWO-YI-A-TUK-TAI (SWIFT CURRENT RIVER) 226 THE JEALOUS WOMEN 227 VI. NI-NA US-TAK-WI (CHIEF MOUNTAIN) 233 THE WISE MAN 235 Illustrations THE NARROWS, UPPER ST. MARY'S LAKE, WITH BARING'S BASIN IN THE BACKGROUND _Frontispiece_ UPPER TWO MEDICINE LAKE AND RISING BULL MOUNTAIN 8 PI´-TA-MAK-AN (RUNNING EAGLE) FALLS 12 AT UPPER TWO MEDICINE LAKE 20 Showing Tail-Feathers-Coming-over-the-Hill, Yellow Wolf, and the author MOVING CAMP FROM TWO MEDICINE 42 OUR CAMP ON CUTBANK RIVER 46 Showing Wonderful Runner and Little Plume Mountains