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"See here, Mul-tal-la," he said, excitedly; "do you tell us that the chief Taggarak makes the condition that he and Deerfoot are each to use only his knife as a weapon?" The Blackfoot gravely nodded his head. "And that neither is to have a friend with him?" "So Taggarak wills." "That isn't the way people fight duels. George and I must be on hand when Deerfoot gets into a scrape like that."
"It will grow till I want it." The Grandmother of the Dolls then made a cross-mark on the carpet and waved her cane in the air. This was done to put a spell on Billy-Billy Blackfoot, but before the spell could work Billy-Billy made a circle by chasing his tail around. Then he glared at the little old woman and slowly closed one eye. This was too much.
In the search for the richest rewards the trapper continually pushed farther and farther away from the "States," encroaching at length on the territory claimed by Spain, a claim to be soon adopted by the new-born Mexican Republic. Trespassing on the tribal rights of Blackfoot, Sioux, Ute, or any other did not enter into any one's mind as something to be considered.
The Blackfoot was constantly afraid that some evil thing might happen to him, and he therefore prayed to all the powers for help for good fortune in his undertakings, for health, plenty, and long life for himself and all his family.
"Is your piece charged?" said Antoine to his red companion. "It is." "Then cock it, and follow me." They met the Blackfoot chief half way, who extended his hand in friendship. Antoine grasped it. "Fire!" cried he. The Flathead levelled his piece, and brought the Blackfoot to the ground.
Despite the remarkable experiences of George and Victor Shelton in the Blackfoot village, they found, as the weeks and months passed, a monotony that deepened their homesickness and caused them to yearn for the day when they could start southward and leave the bleak region forever behind.
"You are husky-looking youngsters," added Captain Clark, from his place beside his associate, as he looked admiringly at the two lads. "Where did you spend the winter?" continued Lewis. "In the Blackfoot country, to the northwest. We reached there last autumn and stayed until a few weeks ago." "I need not ask you if you were well treated, for your looks show that." "They were all our friends.
That war-party has taken one hundred horses in the last raid into Blackfoot or Peagin territory; well, the whole tribe are free to help themselves to the best and fleetest steeds before the captors will touch one out of the band.
Before Lewis and Clark crossed this vast country, the Blackfeet had traded with the Hudson Bay Company, and steel knives and lance-heads, bearing the names of English makers, still remain to testify to the relations existing, in those days, between those famous traders and men of the Piegan, Blood, and Blackfoot tribes, although it took many years for traders on our own side of the line to gain their friendship.
Once, about sixty or seventy years ago, the Bloods and Piegans had a quarrel so serious that men were killed on both sides and horses stolen; yet this was hardly a real war, for only a part of each tribe was involved, and the trouble was not of long duration. Each one of the Blackfoot tribes is subdivided into gentes, a gens being a body of consanguineal kindred in the male line.
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