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he peaks behind it. A chief, a leader, should always be taller, more conspicuous in every way than his followers. This mountain gradually slopes up eastward from the one behind it to an altitude of 9056 feet, then drops in a sheer cliff several thousand feet to its steep slope ru

alo skull, taken there by a Blackfoot in the long ago for a pillow rest while getting his medicine dream. There he fasted for days, and at last, in his weakened condition resulting from want of food and water, got his vision, his medicine which was to be his guardian through life. Who was it that

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rs ago a hunter, Na-mik′-ai-yi by name, trailed a band of elk around to the ridge behind the mountain and up its narrow way until they came to the foot of the cliff near the summit and could go no farther. There they turned back toward him and he fi

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athered in Yellow Wolf's lodge for a smoke and a talk, and our ho

WISE

wo of them were Wise Man[13] and his woman. He was so name

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ns, moccasins, all made of plain tanned leather of different kinds. Wise Man thought long about this, and finally said to his

mewhat longer and wider than his body, and quite deep, and killed a deer and laid it beside the pit, and slashed its body so that the liver protruded. He then got into the pit, covered the top of it with willow sticks and grass, and waited, hoping that eagles would see the deer and come to eat it. They did come; he could hear the heavy swish of their wings as they sailed down upo

which he carefully spread them. He then threw a quantity of sweetgrass upon the fire, and, running from the lodge, the two tightly closed it and kept the smoke inside. This last they did th

by setting many snares he caught during the winter more than a hundred of them. He then made a headdress of some of the eagle tail feathers, and suspended from it a number of weasel skins, a

n,' she answered. 'You look very brave,

said, 'but I am not yet satisfied. Perhaps I can imp

and in the evening boring holes in the soft part. Having collected two hundred, he sewed them in ro

ete; we have fine appearance. Let us go h

l make our clothes really beautiful. I have done all that I can wit

und upon the ground. He sat down, took up some and examined them, and the thought came to him that they could be dyed different colors and in some way sewed upon garments

e trees will stain anything a yellow that will not fade,

long time making them, but at last she made enough of the bands to sew onto the arms of Wise Man's shirt, and down his leggins, and upon the neck front-and-back of her gown. Each was so pleased with the appearance of the other then that they kissed and almost cried with joy. Early the following morning they packed up, crossed the river, and started for the camp, still here at Chief Mountain. As soon as they came in sight of it they stopped, put on their fine clothe

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Tail-Feathers-Coming-over-the-Hill is a sick man, and Yellow Wolf but little better, so to-night we decided to break camp in the morning. To-morrow night each

emories of other days; of deep regret that the old days-days when we had all this great country to ourselves-are gone forever. And so, to-night, after our quiet, last evening meal together, we had no story-te

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hyphenated forms, e.g. Pi′-ta-mak-an and P

ible that Ap-ut′-o-sosts is a printer error, as compass directions seem to end in ~ohts, bu

ion errors hav

amendments h

d to Is-si-sak′-ta-Ki-nuk′-s

warrior-It struck the old

e title page. Other illustrations have been moved where n