Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park by James Willard

Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park by James Willard Schultz : (full image Illustrated)

AFTER an absence of many years, I have returned to visit for a time my Blackfeet relatives and friends, and we are camping along the mountain trails where, in the long ago, we hunted buffalo, and elk, and moose, and all the other game peculiar to this region.
To-day we pitched our lodges under Rising Wolf Mountain, that massive, sky-piercing, snow-crested height of red-and-gray rock which slopes up so steeply from the north shore of Upper Two Medicine Lake. This afternoon we saw upon it, some two or three thousand feet up toward its rugged crest, a few bighorn and a Rocky Mountain goat. But we may not kill them! Said Tail-Feathers-Coming-over-the-Hill: â€œThere they are! Our meat, but the whites have taken them from us, even as they have taken everything else that is ours!â€ And so we are eating beef where once we feasted upon the rich ribs and loins of game, which tasted all the better because we trailed and killed it, and with no little labor brought it to the womenfolk in camp.
Rising Wolf Mountain! What a fitting and splendid monument it is to the first white man to traverse the foothills of the Rockies between the Saskatchewan and the Missouri! Hugh Monroe was his English name. His father was Captain Hugh Monroe, of the English army; his mother was AmÃ©lie de la Roche, a daughter of a noble family of French Ã©migrÃ©s. Hugh Monroe, Junior, was born in Montreal in 1798. In 1814 he received permission to enter the employ of the Hudsonâ€™s Bay Company, and one year laterâ€”in the summer of 1815â€”he arrived at its new post, Mountain Fort, on the North Fork of the Saskatchewan and close to the foothills of the Rockies.
At that time the Company had but recently entered Blackfeet territory, and none of its engagÃ©s understood their language; an interpreter was needed, and the Factor appointed Monroe to fit himself for the position. The Blackfeet were leaving the Fort to hunt and trap along the tributaries of the Missouri during the winter, and he went with them, under the protection of the head chief, who had nineteen wives and two lodges and an immense band of horses. By easy stages they traveled along the foot of the Rockies to Sun River, where they wintered, and then in the spring, instead of returning to the Saskatchewan, they crossed the Missouri, hunted in the Yellowstone country that summer, wintered on the Missouri at the mouth of the Marias River, and returned to Mountain Fort the following spring with all the furs their horses could carry.
I. Two Medicine
HUGH MONROE
THE WOMAN WHO EARNED A MANâ€™S NAME
THE STORY OF THE THUNDER MEDICINE
II. Pu-nakâ€²-ik-si (Cutbank)
HOW MOUNTAIN CHIEF FOUND HIS HORSES
WHITE FUR AND HIS BEAVER CLAN
THE STORY OF THE BAD WIFE
OLD MAN AND THE WOMAN
III. Ki-nukâ€²-si Is-si-sakâ€²-ta (Little River)
OLD MAN AND THE WOLVES
NEW ROBE, THE RESCUER
IV. Puht-o-muk-si-kim-iks (The Lakes Inside): St. Maryâ€™s Lakes
THE STORY OF THE FIRST HORSES
ONE HORN, SHAMER OF CROWS
THE ELK MEDICINE CEREMONY
NA-WAKâ€²-O-SIS (THE STORY OF TOBACCO)
V. Iks-iâ€²-kwo-yi-a-tuk-tai (Swift Current River)
THE JEALOUS WOMEN
VI. Ni-na Us-tak-wi (Chief Mountain)
THE WISE MAN
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-08-05
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-08-05
Format	Kindle eBook

Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park by James Willard Schultz : (full image Illustrated)

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