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Blackfoot lodge tales : the story of a prairie people

Title
  1. Blackfoot lodge tales : the story of a prairie people / George Bird Grinnell.
Published by
  1. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, 1962.
Author
  1. Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938.

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Description
  1. xvii, 310 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
Summary
  1. In WLN --The story of a prairie people.
Series statement
  1. A Bison book ; 116
Uniform title
  1. Bison book ; BB116.
Subject
  1. Siksika Indians > Folklore
  2. Indians of North America > Folklore
  3. Indians > Social life and customs
  4. Siksika Indians > Legends
  5. Siksika Indians > Social life and customs
  6. Indians > Folklore
  7. American Indians > Siksika
  8. Folk culture
  9. Indians > Social life and customs
  10. Indians of North America
  11. Siksika Indians
  12. Siksika Indians
Genre/Form
  1. Folklore
  2. Folklore.
Contents
  1. Indians and their stories -- Peace with the snakes -- Lost woman -- Adventures of Bull Turns Round -- Kutoyis -- Bad wife -- Lost children -- Mik-api -- Red Old Man -- Heavy Collar and the ghost woman -- Wolf man -- Fast runners -- Two war trails -- Scarface -- Origin of the I-kun-uh-kah-tsi -- Origin of the medicine pipe -- Beaver medicine -- Buffalo rock -- Origin of the worm pipe -- Ghosts' buffalo -- Blackfoot genesis -- Dog and the stick -- Bears -- Wonderful bird -- Race -- Bad weapons -- Elk -- Old man doctors -- Rock -- Theft from the sun -- Fox -- Old man and the lynx -- Past and the present --Daily life and customs -- How the Blackfoot lived -- Social organization -- Hunting -- Blackfoot in war -- Religion -- Medicine pipes and healing -- Blackfoot of today.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.