Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People By: George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938)
First Page: Juliet Sutherland, Thomas Hutchinson and PG Distributed Proofreaders Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL CONTENTS INTRODUCTION INDIANS AND THEIR STORIES STORIES OF ADVENTURE THE PEACE WITH THE SNAKES THE LOST WOMAN ADVENTURES OF BULL TURNS ROUND K[)U]T O' YIS THE BAD WIFE THE LOST CHILDREN MIK A'PI RED OLD MAN HEAVY COLLAR AND THE GHOST WOMAN THE WOLF MAN THE FAST RUNNERS TWO WAR TRAILS STORIES OF ANCIENT TIMES SCARFACE ORIGIN OF THE I KUN UH' KAH TSI ORIGIN OF THE MEDICINE PIPE THE BEAVER MEDICINE THE BUFFALO ROCK ORIGIN OF THE WORM PIPE THE GHOSTS' BUFFALO STORIES OF OLD MAN THE BLACKFOOT GENESIS THE DOG AND THE STICK THE BEARS THE WONDERFUL BIRD THE RACE THE BAD WEAPONS THE ELK OLD MAN DOCTORS THE ROCK THE THEFT FROM THE SUN THE FOX OLD MAN AND THE LYNX THE STORY OF THE THREE TRIBES . THE PAST AND THE PRESENT DAILY LIFE AND CUSTOMS HOW THE BLACKFOOT LIVED SOCIAL ORGANIZATION HUNTING THE BLACKFOOT IN WAR RELIGION MEDICINE PIPES AND HEALING THE BLACKFOOT OF TO DAY BLACKFOOT LODGE TALES We were sitting about the fire in the lodge on Two Medicine. Double Runner, Small Leggings, Mad Wolf, and the Little Blackfoot were smoking and talking, and I was writing in my note book. As I put aside the book, and reached out my hand for the pipe, Double Runner bent over and picked up a scrap of printed paper, which had fallen to the ground. He looked at it for a moment without speaking, and then, holding it up and calling me by name, said: " Pi nut ú ye is tsím okan, this is education. Here is the difference between you and me, between the Indians and the white people. You know what this means. I do not. If I did know, I should be as smart as you. If all my people knew, the white people would not always get the best of us." " Nísah (elder brother), your words are true. Therefore you ought to see that your children go to school, so that they may get the white man's knowledge. When they are men, they will have to trade with the white people; and if they know nothing, they can never get rich. The times have changed. It will never again be as it was when you and I were young." "You say well, Pi nut ú ye is tsím okan, I have seen the days; and I know it is so. The old things are passing away, and the children of my children will be like white people. None of them will know how it used to be in their father's days unless they read the things which we have told you, and which you are all the time writing down in your books." "They are all written down, Nísah , the story of the three tribes, Sík si kau, Kaínah, and Pik[)u]ni." INDIANS AND THEIR STORIES The most shameful chapter of American history is that in which is recorded the account of our dealings with the Indians. The story of our government's intercourse with this race is an unbroken narrative of injustice, fraud, and robbery. Our people have disregarded honesty and truth whenever they have come in contact with the Indian, and he has had no rights because he has never had the power to enforce any. Protests against governmental swindling of these savages have been made again and again, but such remonstrances attract no general attention. Almost every one is ready to acknowledge that in the past the Indians have been shamefully robbed, but it appears to be believed that this no longer takes place. This is a great mistake. We treat them now much as we have always treated them. Within two years, I have been present on a reservation where government commissioners, by means of threats, by bribes given to chiefs, and by casting fraudulently the votes of absentees, succeeded after months of effort in securing votes enough to warrant them in asserting that a tribe of Indians, entirely wild and totally ignorant of farming, had consented to sell their lands, and to settle down each upon 160 acres of the most utterly arid and barren land to be found on the North American continent... Continue reading book >>

Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People By: George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938)

First Page:

Juliet Sutherland, Thomas Hutchinson and PG Distributed Proofreaders

Blackfoot Lodge Tales

The Story of a Prairie People

GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

INDIANS AND THEIR STORIES

STORIES OF ADVENTURE

THE PEACE WITH THE SNAKES

THE LOST WOMAN

ADVENTURES OF BULL TURNS ROUND

K[)U]T O' YIS

THE BAD WIFE

THE LOST CHILDREN

MIK A'PI RED OLD MAN

HEAVY COLLAR AND THE GHOST WOMAN

THE WOLF MAN

THE FAST RUNNERS

TWO WAR TRAILS

STORIES OF ANCIENT TIMES

SCARFACE

ORIGIN OF THE I KUN UH' KAH TSI

ORIGIN OF THE MEDICINE PIPE

THE BEAVER MEDICINE

THE BUFFALO ROCK

ORIGIN OF THE WORM PIPE

THE GHOSTS' BUFFALO

STORIES OF OLD MAN

THE BLACKFOOT GENESIS

THE DOG AND THE STICK

THE BEARS

THE WONDERFUL BIRD

THE RACE

THE BAD WEAPONS

THE ELK

OLD MAN DOCTORS

THE ROCK

THE THEFT FROM THE SUN

THE FOX

OLD MAN AND THE LYNX

THE STORY OF THE THREE TRIBES .

THE PAST AND THE PRESENT

DAILY LIFE AND CUSTOMS

HOW THE BLACKFOOT LIVED

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

HUNTING

THE BLACKFOOT IN WAR

RELIGION

MEDICINE PIPES AND HEALING

THE BLACKFOOT OF TO DAY

BLACKFOOT LODGE TALES

We were sitting about the fire in the lodge on Two Medicine. Double Runner, Small Leggings, Mad Wolf, and the Little Blackfoot were smoking and talking, and I was writing in my note book. As I put aside the book, and reached out my hand for the pipe, Double Runner bent over and picked up a scrap of printed paper, which had fallen to the ground. He looked at it for a moment without speaking, and then, holding it up and calling me by name, said:

" Pi nut ú ye is tsím okan, this is education. Here is the difference between you and me, between the Indians and the white people. You know what this means. I do not. If I did know, I should be as smart as you. If all my people knew, the white people would not always get the best of us."

" Nísah (elder brother), your words are true. Therefore you ought to see that your children go to school, so that they may get the white man's knowledge. When they are men, they will have to trade with the white people; and if they know nothing, they can never get rich. The times have changed. It will never again be as it was when you and I were young."

"You say well, Pi nut ú ye is tsím okan, I have seen the days; and I know it is so. The old things are passing away, and the children of my children will be like white people. None of them will know how it used to be in their father's days unless they read the things which we have told you, and which you are all the time writing down in your books."

"They are all written down, Nísah , the story of the three tribes, Sík si kau, Kaínah, and Pik[)u]ni."

INDIANS AND THEIR STORIES

The most shameful chapter of American history is that in which is recorded the account of our dealings with the Indians. The story of our government's intercourse with this race is an unbroken narrative of injustice, fraud, and robbery. Our people have disregarded honesty and truth whenever they have come in contact with the Indian, and he has had no rights because he has never had the power to enforce any.

Protests against governmental swindling of these savages have been made again and again, but such remonstrances attract no general attention. Almost every one is ready to acknowledge that in the past the Indians have been shamefully robbed, but it appears to be believed that this no longer takes place. This is a great mistake. We treat them now much as we have always treated them. Within two years, I have been present on a reservation where government commissioners, by means of threats, by bribes given to chiefs, and by casting fraudulently the votes of absentees, succeeded after months of effort in securing votes enough to warrant them in asserting that a tribe of Indians, entirely wild and totally ignorant of farming, had consented to sell their lands, and to settle down each upon 160 acres of the most utterly arid and barren land to be found on the North American continent... Continue reading book >>

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