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Literature Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians
Alice Beck Kehoe, D. C. Duvall, D. C. Duvall,
Clark Wissler, Clark Wissler Paper: 1995,xxxiii,168,CIP.LC
94-40882,0-8032-9762-9
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Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians,
originally published in 1908 by the American Museum
of Natural History, introduces such figures as Old Man,
Scar-Face, Blood-Clot, and the Seven Brothers. Included
are tales with ritualistic origins emphasizing the prototypical
Beaver-Medicine and the roles played by Elk-Woman and
Otter-Woman, and a presentation of Star Myths, which
reveal the astronomical knowledge of the Blackfoot Indians.
Narratives about Raven, Grasshopper, and Whirlwind-Boy
account for conditions in humanity and nature. Many
of the stories in the concluding group-like "The
Lost Children" and "The Ghost-Woman"
-were tales told to Blackfoot children. Clark Wissler
notes that these narratives were collected very early
in the twentieth century from the Piegans in Montana
and from the North Piegans, Bloods, and Northern Blackfoot
in Canada. Most were translated by D. C. Duvall and
revised for Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians by Wissler.
Wissler (1870-1947) was curator at the American Museum
of Natural History and chairman of the Department of
Anthropology at Columbia University. Among his major
works are North American Indians of the Plains and Man
and Culture. Introducing this Bison Book edition is
Alice B. Kehoe, a professor of sociology and anthropology
at Marquette University and the author of North American
Indians: A Comprehensive Account.
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