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قراءة كتاب Blackfeet Indian Stories
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The Project Gutenberg eBook,
Blackfeet Indian Stories,
by George Bird Grinnell
Title: Blackfeet Indian Stories
Author: George Bird Grinnell
Release Date: October 22, 2004 [eBook #13833]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLACKFEET INDIAN STORIES***
E-text prepared by Janet Kegg
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Cold Maker
BLACKFEET
INDIAN STORIES
BY
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL
BLACKFEET LODGE TALES, TRAILS OF THE PATHFINDERS, ETC.
1915
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
THE BULLS SOCIETY
THE OTHER SOCIETIES
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
Blackfeet Indian Stories
TWO FAST RUNNERS
Once, a long time ago, the antelope and the deer happened to meet on the prairie. They spoke together, giving each other the news, each telling what he had seen and done. After they had talked for a time the antelope told the deer how fast he could run, and the deer said that he could run fast too, and before long each began to say that he could run faster than the other. So they agreed that they would have a race to decide which could run the faster, and on this race they bet their galls. When they started, the antelope ran ahead of the deer from the very start and won the race and so took the deer's gall.
But the deer began to grumble and said, "Well, it is true that out here on the