CONTENTS
Reading edition
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 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