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Updated: June 9, 2025
How is it that he was braver than the other boys and came into the lodge when all the others kept at a distance?" "That," said the Blackfoot significantly, "is because he is the son of Taggarak and knows it. He can do nothing that can bring him punishment, unless it comes from his father, and he does not punish him unless he acts as if he is afraid of something." "How many children has Taggarak?"
Instead of contenting himself with merely challenging the Shawanoe to mortal combat, he sent him word that all that was left for him to do was to choose between two methods of shuffling off the mortal coil. It was to be the Spirit Circle or by the knife of the Blackfoot.
Trapper Potts was standing, rifle in hand and an arrow jutting from his hip. "Yes. I can't make off. Get away if you can. I meant to kill one at least." He aimed and fired; shot a Blackfoot dead. That was his last act. The smoke had no more than cleared the muzzle of his gun, ere a hundred arrows and bullets "made a riddle of him." Thus he died, also; a brave no-surrender man.
Moonlight was not as deeply impressed with her "luck" as the old lady expected, and was on the point of bursting out, after the manner of savages, into a torrent of abuse of the Blackfoot race in general, and of Rushing River in particular, when the thought that she was a captive and at the mercy of the Blackfeet fortunately restrained her.
His grin displayed every molar in his head, and the mouth, stretched to double its usual extent, had that horrible appearance when the space between the lips at the corners is the same as in front and the expression is that of a raging wild beast. Thus the two stood, their arms sawing up and down and from one side to another, without the Blackfoot being able to loosen the merciless grip.
He believes that the Creator is a magnified non-natural man, living in the sky. The Gippsland or Fuegian or Blackfoot Supreme Being is just a Being, anthropomorphic, not a mrart, or 'spirit. The Supreme Being is a wesen, Being, Vui; we have hardly a term for an immortal existence so undefined.
Various theories have been offered in explanation of this phenomenon, but as yet none has proved satisfactory. Deerfoot did not interrupt the Blackfoot while he was relating the legend of the Spirit Circle. He listened attentively. He had heard many such myths among his own people, and once they impressed him, but he had come to look upon them as idle tales not worth a thought.
He says, "The Blackfeet respect the whites more than the Crees do, that is, a Blackfoot will never attempt the life of a Cree at our forts, and bands of them are more easily controlled in an excitement, than Crees. It would be easier for one of us to save the life of a Cree among a band of Blackfeet than it would be to save a Blackfoot in a band of Crees."
"There was a company of Hudson Bay freighters ambushed and killed along that very trail by Blackfoot Indians in 1839," said Aunt Jennie dolefully. "Fifty years ago! Their ghosts must have ceased to haunt it by this time," said Kate flippantly. "Well, you'll get wet through and catch your deaths of cold," protested Aunt Jennie. "No fear of it. We'll be cased in rubber.
The Blackfoot pipes are usually made of black or green slate or sandstone. The Blackfeet do not whip their children, but still they are not without some training. Children must be taught, or they will not know anything; if they do not know anything, they will have no sense; and if they have no sense they will not know how to act.
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