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In Blackfoot mythology, there are legends surrounding the origins of everything because, to them, everything has an origin. Napi is featured in the origin of the wind. [1] In this legend, Napi finds two bags containing summer and winter. Napi was determined to get a hold of these bags so that he could make the two seasons of equal months. [1]
In Mythos and The Power of Myth, [52] Campbell recounts the story he calls "The Buffalo's Wife" as told by the Blackfoot tribe of North America. The story tells of a time when the buffalos stopped coming to the hunting plains, leaving the tribe to starve.
Daughters of the Buffalo Women: Maintaining the Tribal Faith (1996) is a collection stories told by Hungry Wolf's mother as well as other Blackfoot elders from the time of Buffalo hunting. [5] The novel takes place in Montana and Canada during the early 1900s. [5]
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Blood Clot Boy is a figure in the mythologies of several Native American tribes, including the Blackfoot, Arapaho, Santee, and Lakota.He is typically depicted as being born after a clot of blood from a buffalo was placed in a pot of boiling water, [1] [2] although the manner in which Blood Clot Boy is given life can vary between versions of the story.
According to legend, at one point the bison refused to go over the cliff. A woman walking underneath the cliff saw a herd right on the edge and pledged to marry one which jumped down. One did so and survived, turning into many dead buffalo at the bottom of the cliff. The woman's people ate the meat and the young woman left with the buffalo.
Mountain Chief was the hereditary chief of the Fast Buffalo Horse band. [1] Mountain Chief was a Piegan (South Piegan) and part of the Blackfeet Nation (Amskapi Pikuni), one of four tribal groups composing the Blackfoot Confederacy. [2] Mountain Chief lived on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana. [6]
The reported birth of a rare white buffalo in Yellowstone National Park fulfills a Lakota prophecy that portends better times, according to members of the American Indian tribe who cautioned that ...