In the first story the antelope and the dear were playing a game of I am better than you. In this game they bet their galls on who could run the fastest. The antelope won the deer's gall. The deer was a sore loser and said it was because they were on the antelope's home turff. The antelope agreed to race again betting their
Dewclaws. The deer won the race in the timber. Since this time the deer has had no gall and the antelope has had no dewclaws. The second story is about a man who had two wives. They were not good house wives and the man often went hungry. The man moved the wives away from others to try to tech them how to become good wives. The man kept watch for buffalo and enemies. The women didn't like living in the middle of no where and plot to kill their husband so they could move back home. The wives dug a hole in the place that their husband use to sit. Once he fell in the hole they backed up their lodging and headed back to town. The wives told the people of the town that their husband had went out to hunt and had been gone for 5 day. A wolf came across the man who was hurt at the bottome of the hole. The big wolves took him in as their brother. The wolves turned him into a man wolf. He helped the wolves get meat and the people that the buffalo belonged to were wondering why their traps were not working. Then one night they figured out that it was a wolf man and they set a trap for him. The people realized that he was the man that went missing and that his wives needed to be punished. The next story is about the days when people could find no game on the praries. They found the man who had kept the game off the praries. They released them and drove them towards their camp. A raven detourd the animals before they made it to the plains. Then Napi decided to get revenge and pretended to be a dead beaver so he could catch the raven. He punished the raven and then set him free. The next story is about a man and a son who are mouring the loss of their wife and mother. The man goes on a journey to find his wife and bring her back with him. In his dreams he is given the directions to find his wife. To get his wife back he had to follow some strict instructions. If he didn't follow them he would lose his wife, or he would die. This is the legend of how the worm-pipe came to happen. The man broke one of the rules to having his wife back and she dissappeared and was never seen again. The next story was about when people were starving. A man caught a rabbit and sent his wife for water to skin it. On her way to the water she heard a beautiful song and stone to which she was given directions to bring back buffalo. They followed the directions and the buffalo returned. The next story is about how thunder came about. Once a man and a woman were struck by thunder. The man lived, but thunder took away his wife. The man went looking for his wife. He went through a long journey to find his wife. The ravens helped him recover his wife by telling him what to do. Once the thunder realized that he was more powerful than him he gave him the pipe to use and pray for rain for the berries. This is how the thunder pipe came to happen. The next story is about an old woman who killed Lone Feather. The woman and her two bears feasted on the man's body. The Cold Maker got angry and went to Broken Bow to have him help kill the bears and get back at the woman. The Cold Maker sent smoke from Broken Bows pipe to tel the other smoke not to come any lower. The woman was frustrated and came inside to see what was going wrong with her plan when Cold Maker and Broken Bow trapped her inside. Coldmaker sent a storm that would drownd the woman and the bears. The next story is about an old man who who gave a rock his coat because he took a nap on the rock. He thanked the rock by giving him his coat. It started raining and the man sent the coyote to borrow the coat. The rock denied this and the man went and took the coat saying he wouldn't give it back. The rock came to crush the man. He chased the man and many animals tried to save the man from the rock that were killed. Finally the bullbat saved the man. He then went to a nest of nighthawks and pinched their bills to make them look prettier. The next story was about how rocks and bullberries cam to be the way they are today. There was an old man who was being chased by a bear because he was calling it names. They ran around in circles around a rock for a long period of time and this is how rocks became the way they are. The man saw bullberries in the water and almost drowned trying to get to them. He then realized that they were on the shore and beat the bush becuase he almost drowned for them. The last story is about how the sun caught meet. An old man loved the leggings that the Sun used for hunting and tried to steal them multiple times. Each time however he always woke up in the Sun's lodge. The Sun gave him the leggings and the man set off. When the man tried to use the leggings they ended up catching on fire and burning to pieces.
Bibliography:
Blackfoot Stories Unit
By: George Bird Grinnell
Two Fast Runners
The Wolf Man
The Dog And The Root Digger
The Camp Of The Ghosts
The Buffalo Stone
How The Thunder Pipe Came
Cold Maker's Medicine
The Rolling Rock
Bear and Bullberries
The Theft from the Sun
Blackfoot Indian Stories
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