Contents

I.Two Medicine[1]
HUGH MONROE[1]
THE WOMAN WHO EARNED A MAN’S NAME[12]
THE STORY OF THE THUNDER MEDICINE[23]
II.Pu-nak′-ik-si (Cutbank)[43]
HOW MOUNTAIN CHIEF FOUND HIS HORSES[49]
WHITE FUR AND HIS BEAVER CLAN[59]
THE STORY OF THE BAD WIFE[85]
OLD MAN AND THE WOMAN[98]
III.Ki-nuk′-si Is-si-sak′-ta (Little River)[110]
OLD MAN AND THE WOLVES[112]
NEW ROBE, THE RESCUER[129]
IV.Puht-o-muk-si-kim-iks (The Lakes Inside): St. Mary’s Lakes[146]
THE STORY OF THE FIRST HORSES[158]
ONE HORN, SHAMER OF CROWS[182]
THE ELK MEDICINE CEREMONY[199]
NA-WAK′-O-SIS (THE STORY OF TOBACCO)[216]
V.Iks-i′-kwo-yi-a-tuk-tai (Swift Current River)[226]
THE JEALOUS WOMEN[227]
VI.Ni-na Us-tak-wi (Chief Mountain)[233]
THE WISE MAN[235]

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Illustrations

The Narrows, Upper St. Mary’s Lake, with Baring’s Basin in the Background[Frontispiece]
Upper Two Medicine Lake and Rising Bull Mountain[8]
Pi′-ta-mak-an (Running Eagle) Falls[12]
At Upper Two Medicine Lake[20]
Showing Tail-Feathers-Coming-over-the-Hill, Yellow Wolf, and the author
Moving Camp from Two Medicine[42]
Our Camp on Cutbank River[46]
Showing Wonderful Runner and Little Plume Mountains
Stream from Unnamed Glacier pouring into Cutbank Canyon[52]
The Beaver Dam[60]
Bighorn Country. Head of Cutbank River[80]
Cutbank River. A Good Trout Riffle[84]
Black Bull and Stabs-by-Mistake near Lower End of Cutbank Canyon[96]
Stabs-by-Mistake, Sun Woman, and her Son, Little Otter, in Cutbank Canyon[106]
Big Spring painting Autobiography on the Flesh Side of a Tanned Elk-Skin[110]
Sun Woman[128]
Camp near Lower End of Upper St. Mary’s Lake[146]
At the Narrows, Upper St. Mary’s Lake[152]
Going-to-the-Sun Mountain[156]
Going-to-the-Sun Chalet, Upper St. Mary’s Lake[180]
Opening of the Elk Medicine Pipe Ceremony[206]
Elk Medicine Pipe Dance[210]
Tail-Feathers-Coming-over-the-Hill propitiating the Dreaded Under-Water People at Upper Two Medicine Lake[212]
Iceberg Lake[226]
En Route to Iceberg Lake[234]
Glacier on Trail to Iceberg Lake[240]

From photographs by R. W. Reed

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