Blackfeet Indian Stories - Softcover

Grinnell, George Bird

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1540307166 ISBN 13: 9781540307163

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Twenty-five or more real Blackfeet Indian folklore stories have been gathered by Mr. Grinnell during his years of intimate study and knowledge of the Native Americans, and are here related as simply and as graphically as the Native Americans themselves told them.

"The Blackfeet were hunters, traveling 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 so, from mouth to mouth, through many generations, they have reached out time." -George Bird Grinnell

"George Bird Grinnell has collected old Indian legends never before told in type in 'Blackfeet Indian Stories.'" -The Book Buyer

"Older boys and girls will find this next book interesting, as it brings together the main facts concerning the lives of some of our great missionary workers among the American Indians. John Eliot, Samson Occum, David Brainerd, Marcus Whitman, John Lewis Dyer, and Stephen R. Riggs. In some of the sketches the men themselves furnish the narrative, so we find the quaint wording and spelling of the times they record." -Everyland

"Legends and anecdotes of primitive Indian life, handed down verbally from generation to generation, are here collected and effectively narrated in English." -The Independent

"Mr. Grinnell tells simply and interestingly the legends of the Blackfeet tribe." -The Review of Reviews

CONTENTS

TWO FAST RUNNERS

THE WOLF MAN

KŬT-O-YĬS´, THE BLOOD BOY

THE DOG AND THE ROOT DIGGER

THE CAMP OF THE GHOSTS

THE BUFFALO STONE

HOW THE THUNDER PIPE CAME

COLD MAKER'S MEDICINE

THE ALL COMRADES SOCIETIES

THE BULLS SOCIETY

THE OTHER SOCIETIES

THE FIRST MEDICINE LODGE

THE BUFFALO-PAINTED LODGES

MĪKA´PI—RED OLD MAN

RED ROBE'S DREAM

THE BLACKFEET CREATION

OLD MAN STORIES

THE WONDERFUL BIRD

THE RABBITS' MEDICINE

THE LOST ELK MEAT

THE ROLLING ROCK

BEAR AND BULLBERRIES

THE THEFT FROM THE SUN

THE SMART WOMAN CHIEF

BOBCAT AND BIRCH TREE

THE RED-EYED DUCK

THE ANCIENT BLACKFEET

About this title

About the Author:

George Bird Grinnell was a man of diverse talents editor, author, traveler, and scientist. Born in 1849, he became, by turn of the century, one of the best-known and most popular interpreters of the Native American.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1540307166
• ISBN 13: 9781540307163
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 154