Category: Blackfoot Stories

Once, long ago, the antelope and the deer met on the prairie. At this time both of them …

Old Man was very hungry. He had been a long time without food, and was thinking how he …

This happened long ago. In those days the people were hungry. No buffalo nor antelope were seen on …

The people had built a great pis'kun, very high and strong, so that no buffalo could escape; but …

The buffalo rock, as called by the Blackfoot Indians, was usually a fossil shell of some kind, picked …

All animals of the Plains at one time heard and knew him, and all birds of the air …

This story goes back many years, to a time before the Indians went to war against each other. …

Now Old Man was walking along, and far off he saw many wolves; and when he came closer, …

Once there was a young woman with many suitors; but she refused to marry. She had seven brothers …

There was once a man who had but one wife. He was not a chief, but a very …