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Title: Blackfeet Indian Stories

Author: George Bird Grinnell

Release Date: October 22, 2004 [eBook #13833]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note:

Many Blackfeet names and words in the printed book from which
this e-text is taken had vowels with breves or macrons over them,
diacritical marks that cannot be reproduced in this e-text. The
first time such a word appears within a story the marks are
represented using [=x] for a vowel with a macron and [)x] for
a vowel with a breve (example: M[=a]-m[)i]n'). Subsequent
appearances of the word do not have the vowels so marked.

BLACKFEET INDIAN STORIES

by

GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL

Author of _Blackfeet Lodge Tales_, _Trails Of The Pathfinders_, etc.

1915

[Illustration: Cold Maker]

TO THE READER

Those who wish to know something about how the people lived who told
these stories will find their ways of life described in the last
chapter of this book.

The Blackfeet were hunters, travelling from place to place on foot.
They used implements of stone, wood, or bone, wore clothing made of
skins, and lived in tents covered by hides. Dogs, their only tame
animals, were used as beasts of burden to carry small packs and drag
light loads.

The stories here told come down to us from very ancient times.
Grandfathers have told them to their grandchildren, and these again
to their grandchildren, and so from mouth to mouth, through many
generations, they have reached our time.

CONTENTS

TWO FAST RUNNERS
THE WOLF MAN