Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National ParkSchultz, James Willard
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Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park
Schultz, James Willard
Glacier National Park (Mont.); Indians of North America -- Folklore; Siksika Indians -- Folklore
STREAM FROM UNNAMED GLACIER POURING INTO CUTBANK
CANYON 52
THE BEAVER DAM 60
BIGHORN COUNTRY. HEAD OF CUTBANK RIVER 80
CUTBANK RIVER. A GOOD TROUT RIFFLE 84
BLACK BULL AND STABS-BY-MISTAKE NEAR LOWER END
OF CUTBANK CANYON 96
STABS-BY-MISTAKE, SUN WOMAN, AND HER SON, LITTLE
OTTER, IN CUTBANK CANYON 106
BIG SPRING PAINTING AUTOBIOGRAPHY ON THE FLESH
SIDE OF A TANNED ELK-SKIN 110
SUN WOMAN 128
CAMP NEAR LOWER END OF UPPER ST. MARY'S LAKE 146
AT THE NARROWS, UPPER ST. MARY'S LAKE 152
GOING-TO-THE-SUN MOUNTAIN 156
GOING-TO-THE-SUN CHALET, UPPER ST. MARY'S LAKE 180
OPENING OF THE ELK MEDICINE PIPE CEREMONY 206
ELK MEDICINE PIPE DANCE 210
TAIL-FEATHERS-COMING-OVER-THE-HILL PROPITIATING
THE DREADED UNDER-WATER PEOPLE AT UPPER TWO
MEDICINE LAKE 212
ICEBERG LAKE 226
EN ROUTE TO ICEBERG LAKE 234
GLACIER ON TRAIL TO ICEBERG LAKE 240
_From photographs by R. W. Reed_
BLACKFEET TALES OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
I
TWO MEDICINE
_July 12, 1915._
HUGH MONROE
After an absence of many years, I have returned to visit for a time my
Blackfeet relatives and friends, and we are camping along the mountain
trails where, in the long ago, we hunted buffalo, and elk, and moose,
and all the other game peculiar to this region.
To-day we pitched our lodges under Rising Wolf Mountain, that massive,
sky-piercing, snow-crested height of red-and-gray rock which slopes up
so steeply from the north shore of Upper Two Medicine Lake. This
afternoon we saw upon it, some two or three thousand feet up toward
its rugged crest, a few bighorn and a Rocky Mountain goat. But we may
not kill them! Said Tail-Feathers-Coming-over-the-Hill: "There they
are! Our meat, but the whites have taken them from us, even as they
have taken everything else that is ours!" And so we are eating beef
where once we feasted upon the rich ribs and loins of game, which
tasted all the better because we trailed and killed it, and with no
little labor brought it to the womenfolk in camp.
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