The Old North trail, or, Life, legends and religion of the Blackfeet Indians / by Walter McClintock.

  • Walter McClintock
Date:
1910
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Credit: The Old North trail, or, Life, legends and religion of the Blackfeet Indians / by Walter McClintock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE OLD NORTH TRAIL INTRODUCTION The once powerful confederation of the Blackfeet or Siksikaua Indians comprising the North Blackfeet, Bloods and Piegans, is of Algonquin origin. Al- though they speak the same language, have similar customs, and are closely intermarried, these three divisions are independent of each other, each having its own Sun-dance, council and head chief. When the dominant white race, both in Canada and the United States, restricted the Blackfeet from their nomadic life, which had covered the vast region stretching, from the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta, to the Yellow- stone River in Montana, and from longitude 1 05 degrees west from Greenwich to the Rocky Mountains, their fixed settlements were made in the localities where their permanent camps were formerly located. Thus the present reservations of the Bloods (Kainau), and North Blackfeet, in the Province of Alberta, Canada, are along the same rivers, where their ancestors camped. The Piegans became subdivided into North and South Piegans, the former in Alberta, and the latter in North- western Montana. The most reliable authorities that I could consult among the Blackfeet, as to the origin of their tribal
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