XXXIX. Dance of the Hair-Parters (Grass Dance) 274 XL. Society of Brave Dogs 284 XLI. A Medicine-Pipe Ceremony 289 XLII. A Sacred Ceremony in Mad Wolf’s Tepee 298 XLIII. The Tribal Dancing-Lodge 304 XLIV. End of the Sun Dance and Farewell of my Indian Father 310 Appendix: Medicinal and Useful Plants of the Blackfoot Indians 319 ILLUSTRATIONS Sunset from Lookout Butte Colored frontispiece A Small Lake on the Western Slope of the Rockies 4 Our Indian Tepee 4 An Old Indian Trail 16 Tribal Camp of Blackfoot on the Prairie 20 Mad Wolf 36 Mad Wolf praying 40 Mad Wolf’s Sacred Beaver Bundle 40 Woman under a Sun-Shelter: Bead and Quill Work; Meat drying on Poles 70 Woman repairing a Tepee-Cover 70 Scaffold Burial 78 A Grave on a Hilltop 78 White Grass, the Medicine Man Showing Interior Arrangement of his Tepee 92 Sunrise at our Hunting Camp in the Rockies (in color) 112 Onesta 154 Nitana 174 The Country of the North Piegans 186 Onesta entering the Thunder Tepee with his Sacred Bundles 200 The Crow Water Ceremony of Onesta in the Thunder Tepee 200 Brings-Down-the-Sun and the Author 210 Three Chiefs, Followers of Mad Wolf 250 A Line of Warriors with War Bonnets 250 Drying and Softening a Skin 256 Fleshing a Hide 256 Circle Camp of the Blackfoot 260 Inner Circle of the Tribal Camp, with Crow Tepee in Foreground (in color) 264 Rattler doctoring Stuyimi 272 Elk Horn, Herald of the Brave Dog Society 280 Society of Brave Dogs marching through the Camp 284 Characteristic Costumes of Brave Dogs 284 Brave Dogs giving their Society Dance 286 Mountain Chief 292 Wolf Plume 292