Old Indian trails

by Walter McClintock

CONTENTS

I.	[My Indian Guide]							3
II.	[Crossing the Rocky Mountains]							8
III.	[Our Camp near the Summit]							15
IV.	[Home of the Scout]							21
V.	[Stories by the Scout’s Mother-in-Law]							32
VI.	[My Adoption by Mad Wolf]							35
VII.	[Mad Wolf tells the Legend of the Beaver Bundle]							42
VIII.	[I am given an Indian Name and made a Member of the Blackfoot Tribe]							54
IX.	[Home of Mad Wolf]							68
X.	[Marriage Customs]							80
XI.	[The Head-Chief and his Wife]							85
XII.	[Legend of the Smoking Star]							92
XIII.	[My Night Experience with a Grizzly Bear]							100
XIV.	[Indian Summer]							109
XV.	[A Frontier Dance]							119
XVI.	[Hunting Rocky Mountain Goats]							124
XVII.	[The Blizzard]							130
XVIII.	[Snow-Bound]							139
XIX.	[The Mad Indian]							144
XX.	[Coming of the Chinook]							149
XXI.	[Beginning of Spring]							153
XXII.	[Our Camp in the Mountains] [[x]]							158
XXIII.	[Our North Expedition]							166
XXIV.	[Onesta and his Sacred Bear Spear]							174
XXV.	[Camp of the Blood Indians]							179
XXVI.	[Country of the North Piegans]							184
XXVII.	[Camp of Brings-Down-the-Sun]							191
XXVIII.	[Onesta gives his Crow Water Ceremony]							199
XXIX.	[The Rival Medicine Men]							206
XXX.	[Brings-Down-the-Sun tells about his Father]							210
XXXI.	[Brings-Down-the-Sun tells about Men’s Societies]							219
XXXII.	[Brings-Down-the-Sun tells about the Birds and the Stars]							226
XXXIII.	[Legends of Star Boy and Scarface]							232
XXXIV.	[Beginning of the Sun Dance]							241
XXXV.	[Forming the Great Circle Camp]							247
XXXVI.	[Life in the Circle Camp]							253
XXXVII.	[Painted Tepees and Picture Writing]							258
XXXVIII.	[A Native Doctor and his Patient]							267
XXXIX.	[Dance of the Hair-Parters (Grass Dance)]							274
XL.	[Society of Brave Dogs]							284
XLI.	[A Medicine-Pipe Ceremony]							289
XLII.	[A Sacred Ceremony in Mad Wolf’s Tepee]							298
XLIII.	[The Tribal Dancing-Lodge]							304
XLIV.	[End of the Sun Dance and Farewell of my Indian Father]							310
	[Appendix: Medicinal and Useful Plants of the Blackfoot Indians]							319
	[Index]							327

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ILLUSTRATIONS

	[Sunset from Lookout Butte]							Colored frontispiece
	[A Small Lake on the Western Slope of the Rockies]							4
	[Our Indian Tepee]							4
	[An Old Indian Trail]							16
	[Tribal Camp of Blackfoot on the Prairie]							20
	[Mad Wolf]							36
	[Mad Wolf praying]							40
	[Mad Wolf’s Sacred Beaver Bundle]							40
	[Woman under a Sun-Shelter: Bead and Quill Work; Meat drying on Poles]							70
	[Woman repairing a Tepee-Cover]							70
	[Scaffold Burial]							78
	[A Grave on a Hilltop]							78
	[White Grass, the Medicine Man] Showing Interior Arrangement of his Tepee							92
	[Sunrise at our Hunting Camp in the Rockies] (in color)							112
	[Onesta]							154
	[Nitana]							174
	[The Country of the North Piegans]							186
	[Onesta entering the Thunder Tepee with his Sacred Bundles]							200
	[The Crow Water Ceremony of Onesta in the Thunder Tepee]							200
	[Brings-Down-the-Sun and the Author] [[xii]]							210
	[Three Chiefs, Followers of Mad Wolf]							250
	[A Line of Warriors with War Bonnets]							250
	[Drying and Softening a Skin]							256
	[Fleshing a Hide]							256
	[Circle Camp of the Blackfoot]							260
	[Inner Circle of the Tribal Camp, with Crow Tepee in Foreground] (in color)							264
	[Rattler doctoring Stuyimi]							272
	[Elk Horn, Herald of the Brave Dog Society]							280
	[Society of Brave Dogs marching through the Camp]							284
	[Characteristic Costumes of Brave Dogs]							284
	[Brave Dogs giving their Society Dance]							286
	[Mountain Chief]							292
	[Wolf Plume]							292
	[A Blackfoot Camp on the Prairie] (in color)							296
	[Ceremony of the Sun Dance inside the Sacred Tepee]							302
	[Raising the Center Pole for the Sun Lodge]							308
	[The Sun Lodge Finished and Ready for the Tribe]							308
	[Twilight in the Circle Camp: Tepees illuminated by Inside Fires]							314

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OLD INDIAN TRAILS