{"collection":"Native American","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nam/pla/ont/ont47.htm","path":"nam/pla/ont/ont47.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/nam/pla/ont/ont47.htm","text":"The Old North Trail, by Walter McClintock, [1910]\nAlberta (Canadian province), 1, 334, 363, 370, 507\nAlmost-a-Dog Mountain, 14, 113\nAltar Sun-dance, 294\nAmerican Museum of Natural History, 519\nApache Indians, 371\nApril, name for, 486\nA-pe-ech-eken, Blackfeet name for author, 93; dance by, 100; meeting with Brings-down-the-Sun, 383; explanation of name, 401\nArapahoe Indians, tradition of, 402; sign for, 404\nAssinniboine Indians, 206, 238, 442\nAugust, name for, 487\nAurora Borealis, 487; names for, 521-2\nAutumn season, name for, 487\nAwunna, medicine man, 102; methods of doctoring, 244-250; practical jokes by, 298, 506\nBack-bone-of-the-world, 13\nBaldy, pack horse, 37, 41, 113, 121\nBannock Indians, 206\nBarren lands, 435\nBear grass, use by Indians, 10, 443, 525\nBear knife, 361\nBeavers, a home of, 389\nBeaver Bundle, 35, 80, 103, 111, 467\nBeaver dam, photograph, 106\nBeaver Medicine, owned by Mad Wolf, 29, 35; ceremonial of, 78; legend, 104; photograph, 107, 153, 367, 517\nBeaver Pipe, 104\nBeaver tipi, 212\nBenton Fort, 33\nBig Crow Foot, 422\nBig Eyes gives author tipi, 23; decorations of tipi, 223\nBig Lake, chief, 157\nBig Moon, 201\nBig Nose, chief, 57\nBig Rock tipi, 210\nBirch Creek, 438\nBitter Root country, 436\nBirds, eastern slope, 389, 479-486; western slope, 11\nBlackbird Brewer, 481\nBlackfeet, burial customs, 148-150; diet, 22, 237; divisions of, 1; herbs and plants used by, 524-30; marriage customs, 184-191; methods of doctoring, 247-250; mourning customs, 150-153; number, past and present, 4; perfumes used by, 364; pets, 246; proper names, 395-405; proverbs and familiar sayings, 402, 476, 478, 484, 485; religious beliefs, 167-170, 352, 353; skill in sign language, 403; societies, 441-465; songs, 282, 518; starvation of, 4, 509; sign for, 404, 405; present condition, 506-512; names for flowers, 531\nBlackfeet tribal camp, first sight of, 18, 208, 481, 495; scenes in, 225, 340\nBlack Tail Creek, 438\nBlack Weasel, dance leader, 274\nBlessing in ceremonial, 32; on food, 34, 181, 367\nBlizzard in mountains, 58\nBlood Indians, 1, 206; camp, 364; characteristics, 368; sign for, 404\nBlue Jay, 47\nBonnet Medicine, 294, 296, 302, 388\nBotanical collection, 364, 524\nBrave Dog Society dance, 299, 455465\nBrings-down-the-Sun, medicine man, robe of, 312, 327; camp of, 378; meet with, 380; hospitality, 388; character, 415; vow to tell the truth, 418; meaning of name, 427; children of, 385, 431; farewell prayer of, 505; genealogical table of family, 532\nBuffalo dance, 99\nBuffalo tipi, Black, 215, Yellow, legend of, 162\nBuffalo Society, 450\nBuffalo tongues as sacred food, 178\nBull Child, medicine man, 310; robe of, 312, 316, 506, 519\nBull Plume, North Piegan, 130, 387, 414\nBull Shoe (famous racehorse), 278\nButterfly (lodge decoration), 408\nBuzzard, 484\nCalgary, 435\nCanada, 325\nCardston, 374\nCarnegie Institute, 524\nCatlin, 2\nCelebration song, 280, 282, 514\nChastity of women, 185\nCheyenne Indians, sign for, 404\nChief Mountain, 173, 424, 463, 520\nChildren's game song, 515\nClan names, 201, 308; marriage, 187\nClark, Capt. W. P., Sign language, 402, 404\nCleveland Mount, 516\nClimate, country of Blackfeet, 4; western slope of Rocky Mountains, 9; eastern slope, 17, 128, 156, 372, 376\nClown, 292\nConjunction of two planets; legend of, 491, 503, 523\nConservation of trees and berry bushes, 385\nContinental Divide, 12, 44, 517\nCoups, counting on the Centre Pole, 301, 307, 316, 519\nCoyotes as pets, 244; attack Indian, 56; as omens, 476\nCree Indians, 206, 238, 338, 442\nCree Medicine, 190\nCrow Beaver ceremonial, 407-410\nCrow Indians, 2, 359; sign for, 404, 405, 437, 473\nCrow Lodge (tipi), 208; origin of, 440\nCrow Lodge Mountain, 440\nCrow Lodge River, 328, 346, 377, 435, 443\nCuster, General, defeat by Sioux, 6\nCutbank Canyon, 18; Medicine Grizzly of, 51, in winter, 72, 455\nCutbank Pass, altitude, 13, 51 Cutbank River, 15, 517\nCypress Hills, 160\nDecember, name for, 486\nDe Smet, Father, 157; Indian name, 401, 518\nDiet of Blackfeet, 22, 237, 238, 442, 485; Author's, 23; Cree, 238\nDoctoring the sick, 142, 174, 247-250\nDog dance, 100\nDogs, death of Red Rover, 155; trained, 246; foraging, 254\nDog feast, Assinniboine, 238\nDon't Laugh clan, origin of name, 201\nDove, 11\nDove society, 449\nDreams, origin of names, 396; butterfly bringer of, 408; dream of author, 412\nDream People, 396\nEagle, golden, feathers of, 429, 484; white headed, 484\nElk Horn, the herald, 257, 271, 506\nElk medicine, home of, 62\nFairy Rings, 363\nFasting of sacred woman, 194, 202; medicine men, 314\nFather-in-law customs, 187\nFeasts, ceremonial of adoption, 34; beaver medicine, 102, 467; marriage, 186; at birth of child, 188; manner of inviting guests, 226; Assinniboine 238; Sun-dance, 302, of sacred tongues, 311; Crow Beaver ceremonial, 408\nFlathead Indians, 7, 51, 157, 206, 226; sign for, 404, 405\nFlicker, 11\nFlinch's Peak, 14\nFlowers, western slope of Rocky Mountains, 10; eastern slope, 41; on prairie, 18; Blackfeet names for, 531\nForest Commission, National, 6\nFour Bears, medicine man, 321\nGames, kinds of, 391; children's song, 391, 515\nGarden wall, 14\nGhost stories, 139-142; Crow Eagle and, 145; our experience with, 330; as owls, 477\nGives-to-the-Sun (wife of Mad Wolf), 29, 173; vow to give Sun-dance, 174, 178, 296, 302, 309, 315\nGifts, generosity of Blackfeet, 261, 367; exchange of, 381\nGlacier National Park, 15, 517\nGoat Mountain, 114\nGoats, mountain, 12; hunting, 113\nGoing-to-the-Sun mountain, 14, 113; meaning of name, 115\nGovernment, W.S., former policy, 509; present policy, 510, 511\nGrasshoppers, way of colouring wings, 377\nGrease Melters, clan of, 57; origin of name, 201\nGreat Bear constellation, 218; legend of, 488, 500, 523\nGrinnell Glacier, 14\nGrizzly bear, author's night experience with, 48-51; Siksikakoan's experience with, 44; Medicine Grizzly of Cutbank Canyon, 51-55; legend, 62-70, 468-473; Medicine Pipe, 253\nGrizzly Bear dance, 264, 406, 461\nGros Ventre Indians, 53, 159, 206, 238; sign for, 404, 442, 452\nGrouse, ruffed, 11; drumming imitated in Medicine Pipe ceremonial, 259\nGull herring, 481\nHair Parter's Society, dance of, 271\nHard Top Knot clan, origin of name, 201\nHartley Randolph, 519\nHawk fish, 484\nHawk, night, 484\nHelena city, 405\nHercules, constellation of, 500\nHide, ceremonial of cutting, 306\nHorses, Blackfeet, food in winter, 71\nHorse races, 278\nHumour of Blackfeet, 298\nInfidelity of wife, penalty for, 185 Iron Shirt, chief, 422; initiation into Medicine Pipe Society, 423\nJackson Mountain, 14\nJackson, William (scout), 6\nJames Mountain, 14\nJanuary, Blackfeet name for, 486\nJennings, O. E., 524\nJuly, Blackfeet name for, 487\nJunco, 11\nJune, Blackfeet name for, 487\nJupiter as morning star, legend of, 491, 503, 524\nK\nKainau (Blood Indians), 1, 364\nKildeer, 483\nKinglet, golden crowned, 11\nKissing dance, 243\nKutenai Indians, 52, 206; sign for, 404\nLame Bull, chief, 422\nLark, pallid horned, 480\nLark, western meadow, 479; song of, 482, 504\nLee's Creek, 438\nLeupp, Francis E., Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 510\nLewis and Clark, 2\nLittle Big Horn, battle of, 6\nLittle Chief Mountain, 14, 113\nLittle Dog, head chief, 422\nLittle Dog, war chief, 291\nLittle Mountain, chief, 418, 419\nLittle Plume, war chief, 277; photograph, 289, 290, 206\nLittle Sister, the, 523\nLodge poles, cutting of, 52, 518\nLone Dog, Sioux chief, 278\nLone Eaters\u2019 clan, origin of name, 201\nLongspur, chestnut collared, 479; song, 482\nLoon, 11\nLookout Butte, 380; view from, 393, 501, 503\nLost children, 218; legend of, 490, 523\nLove medicine, 191\nLove song, 242, 283, 318, 411, 513\nLynx dance, 95\nLupine blue, abundant, 19\nMacgillivray, warbler, 11\nMackenzie, explorer, 3\nMacleod, Canada, 389\nMad Wolf (Siyeh), chief, first meeting with, 20; ceremonial of adoption, 26-35; prayer by, 33; his fight with Kutenai Indians, 52; gives ceremonial of Beaver Medicine, 76-102; tells legend of Beaver Medicine, 103-112; his home on Cutbank River, 124; tells the legend of the Snow Tipi, 133-138; tells of Father De Smet, 157-166; his letter of invitation, 171; his summer camp, 173; final disposal of author's letters, 150, 173; Sun-dance of, 174-323; leads ceremonial of Sweat-lodge, 285; his farewell speech, 322; death, 323, 506\nMad Wolf (Siyeh) Mountain, 14, 113\nMad Dog Society as police, 206; in ceremonial of Sweat-lodge, 284; origin, 452-454; costume, 458\nMad Indian, tragedy of, 372-374\nMandan Indians, 206; sign for, 404, 521\nMarch, name for, 486\nMarmots, hoary, 12\nMarriage customs, 184\nMeals, time of, 442\nMeat, preparation of, 237\nMedicine, meaning of word, 168, 517\nMedicine Bonnet, 294, 296, 302, 496, 500\nMedicine Grizzly, legends of, 51-55, 468-473\nMedicine man, origin of name, 168\nMedicine men, doctoring sick, 142-144, 174, 244-250; as weather makers, 128; in Sun Lodge, 314, 320, 321\nMedicine Pipe, used in time of sickness, 143; in burial, 164, 253, 254; ceremonial of, 253-270; ceremonial at time of first thunder, 387; dances, 406; origin of a, 424426; Pipe Society initiation of members, 252-270, 423-426\nMedicine Wolf, legend of, 473-476\nMenepoka attacked by coyotes, 56\nMeteors turn into Dusty Stars, 217, 501\nMilk River, North Fork of, 334\nMilk River Ridge, 124; in blizzard, 128-130\nMissions, Christian among Blackfeet, 512\nMoon used in decoration, 218, 313; prayers to, 288, 333, legend of, 493\nMoons, origin of, 109; calendar of, 486\nMorning Eagle and his war-horse, 226\nMorning Star, prayers to, 157, 288, 324; in lodge decoration, 219, 491, 492, 503, 523\nMosquito Society, 448\nMother-in-law customs, 187, 408, 432\nMountain Chief, 201; speech, 276\nMourning customs, 150, 152, 153, 164, 165, 369\nMu-koi-sa-po (Wolf Plume) owner of Yellow Buffalo Tipi, 164; owner of a Beaver Bundle, 467\nN\nNames, Blackfeet, 385; for trees, 386; superstition against telling 395; selection of, 396, 397, of females 399; of males, 400; animals, 401; origin of Running Wolf, 418; Iron Shirt, 422; topographical, 434-440; of birds, 481484; moons, constellations, etc., 486-488\nNapi (Old Man), 56, 78, 337, 440\nNatosin, from North Blackfeet, vow by, 229, 285, 294, 303\nNatosin Nepe-e, medicine man, 327; meaning of name, 423\nNevin, Arthur, Indian name, 400; composer of Opera Po\u00efa, 518\nNez Perce Indians, 206, 371; sign for, 404, 405\nNorthern crown, constellation, 500\nNorth Piegans, 375\nNorth Trail, Old, 3, 18, 328, 434-437\nNovember, name for, 486\nNuthatch, red-breasted, 11\nOctober, name for, 487\nOld agency, 333\nOld Man, 56, 337; stories, 338-348, 440\nOld Man's River, 377\nO-mis-tai-po-kah, head chief, 34, 77; prayer of, 95, 297, 308, founder of Mad Dogs, 452-506\nOne Spot (blood), 367\nOnesta, 325, and Bear Spear, 352\nOwl, medicine pipe, 254; on ghosts of dead, 148, 477\nPack horses, characteristics, 36\nPaint, sacred red, Mad Wolf paints author, 32, 94; origin of, 108; for doctoring sick, 143; specialists, 214; how secured, 215\nPaint, yellow, used in ceremonial of\nSnow Tipi, 136; sacred to buffalo, 163, where secured, 215; used by a doctor, 250\nPainted Tipis, 134, 162, 207-224\nParade, tribal, 290; of Sioux warriors, 280\nPare, Andrew, 522\nParfleches, making of, 231, 518\nPemmican, preparation of, 237\nPend d\u2019Oreille Indians, 206; sign for, 404, 463\nPerfumes used by Blackfeet, 364, 530 Pets, 245, 246\nPhotographing Beaver medicine ceremonial, difficulty in, 153, also of women, 231; Medicine Pipe ceremonial, 258\nPicture-writing on tipis, 217-224; on war horse, 226; on medicine man and his robe, 312, 313; in tribunal records, 422, 423, 468\nPiegan Indians, 1; sign for, 404 Pinchot Gifford, 6\nPinchot Mountain, 14\nPipe, Beaver, 86, 98, 104; origin of, 111\nPipe-dancing, 436\nPipe, Long Time, 427\nPipe, smoking customs, 31, 188\nPiskun, 346, 437-439; women's, 440, 451, 520\nPleiades constellation, in lodge decoration, 218; on medicine robe, 313; legend, 490, 523\nPo\u00efa legend, 491, 503; opera, 519\nPole, ceremonial of Raising Centre, preparatory service, 293, securing material for, 300, 301; gifts tied to, 307\nPole hymn, Raising the Centre, 308, 311, 513\nPolice, Blackfeet, 206; societies as, 465\nPolice, Canadian Mounted, 371, 372, 422\nPolygamy, reasons for, 188\nPorcupine Mountains, 328, 377, 429\nPreservation of Blackfeet songs, 283\nPreservation by North Piegans of trees and berry bushes, 385, 386\nProngs used in ceremonial, 79; origin of, 500\nProverbs and familiar sayings of Blackfeet, 402, 476, 478, 484, 485\nPurification of a woman, 97\nRabbit snow-shoe, 74\nRainbow, 487\nRaven Society, 146\nRecords, keeping of tribal, 220, 221, 422, 423, 468\nRed Eagle Glacier, 14\nRed Eagle Mountain, 43, 113, 120\nRed Fox singing night song, 282\nReligious beliefs of Blackfeet, 167-170, 352, 353,\nReno Mayor, retreat of, 7\nRhubarb, wild, used in ceremonial, 295, 296, 485, 529\nRising Wolf Mountain, 43, 126, 242, 325\nRobe, sacred elk-skin, 302, 498\nRobin, 11\nRocky Mountains, 1, 7; names for, 13, 36, 113, 125, 440, 503\nRoosevelt, Theodore, 510\nRooster, song of, 484\nRunning Crane, chief, 192, 205; speech of, 276, 323, 506\nRunning Rabbit, ghost of, 141\nRunning Wolf, origin of name, 418, 427, 434\nSt. Mary's Lakes, 113, 122, 439\nSt. Mary's River, 122, 334, 424, 517\nSand Hills, 144; description of, 148, 324\nSarcee Indians, 206\nSarvis berries as food supply, 385; for feast, 408, 466, 529\nSaskatchewan River North, 1, 517\nScarface, 296, 308; legend, 491, 503\nScreaming Owl, head chief, 331\nSerpent Tipi, 211\nSeptember, name for, 487\nSexton Glacier, 14\nSeven Brothers (Great Bear constellation), 218, 312; legend of, 488, 500, 523\nSign for Buffalo, 83; Antelope, 85, 262; Elk, 263; Swan, 265, Sign language, 402-405\nSiksikakoan (Mr. Jackson), record of, 6; death, 7; character, 23, 506\nSham battles, 277\nShoshone Indians, 468\nSioux Indians, 206, 278, 371; sign for, 404, 405\nSioux dance, 243, 514; celebration song, 514\nSiyeh (Mad Wolf), chief, 20; letter from, 172\nSiyeh (Mad Wolf), Mountain, 14, 116\nSkunks, clan, origin of name, 201\nSmallpox epidemics, 4, 422, 444\nSmall Robes, clan, conversion to Christianity, 166, 201\nSnipe, 483\nSnipe Wilson, 481\nSnake Indians, sign for, 404, 405; expedition against, 419, 468\nSnake Woman, doctor for Mad Wolf, 324\nSnow Tipi, legend of, 133, 134\nSocieties, Blackfeet, Raven, 146; Mad Dog, 206, 284; Brave Dog, 299, 455-465; Kit-fox, 445-447; Mosquito, 448; Dove, 449; Buffalo, 450\nSongs, Black feet, 242, 277, 280, 281, 282, 293, 297, 308, 318, 376, 410, 411, 513\nSparrow, chipping, 11; Savanna, 173, 504; white crowned, 389, 504; white throat, 389, 481; song, 482; western lark, 479, 481; vesper, 481\nSpear, sacred, 277\nSperry Glacier, 14\nSpotted Eagle, medicine man, 182, 286, 305, 310, 312, 320, 334, 477, 506\nSpring Season, name for, 486\nStar Boy, legend of, 491\nStony Indians, 484\nStuyimi, doctoring of, 244-250 Strikes-on-both-sides, daughter of Mad Wolf, 30; costume, 77; dance, 99, 176\nSummer Season, name for, 487\nSun-dance, meaning of, 170; beginning of, 178; ceremonial, 284-290, 293-297, 302-311,; decline of, 507-509\nSunflowers, velvet leaf, 19\nSun-lodge, erection of, 308; ceremonials inside, 312\nSun Worship, 167, decline of, 507-509\nSuperstitions, Medicine Pipe, 267-269\nSweat-lodge, erection of and ceremonial, 284-290, 430\nSweet grass incense, 31, 78, 173, 180, 296, 306, 498, 500; as perfume, 364, 530\nSweet pine as incense, 268, 296; as perfume, 364, 530\nSweet Pine Hills (or Sweet Grass Hills), 77, 122, 215\nSwift Current Pass, 15\nSwift Current River, 439\nTanning hides, 230\nTetons, 437\nThrush, hermit, 11; olive backed, 11, 503\nThunder-bird, lodge decoration, 135, 265; dance, 407, 408; home of 425, 519-20\nThunder Chief, 253; gives Pipe, 352, 487\nThunder Tipi, 213, 407, 408; rules of, 410, 413\nTipi, author's, 222; making, covering of, 232; at night, 242; pitching of, 234; Painted, 205-224\nTobacco, origin of, 108; kinds used, 528\nTongues, sacred, 178, 303, 305, 316\nTorture, self, of warriors, 318, 319\nTravelling song, 281\nTribal hymn, 515; regulations, 521\nTriple Divide, 14\nTuberculosis, 512\nTurtle Mountain, 378\nTwo Medicine Falls, 43\nTwo Medicine Lake, 325\nTwo Medicine River, ghosts along, 141, meaning of name, 438\nUnderground Animals, 286\nUnderground Spirits, 317\nVenus, morning star, legend of, 491, 503, 524\nVireo, 11\nVow, to give Sun-dance, 143, 174, 183; to attend Sun-dance, 229, 333, 384; to give Beaver Medicine ceremonial, 110, 124; in behalf of sick, 124, 304; to give Medicine Pipe ceremonial, 269; to give ceremonial of Painted Tipis, 212, 214; to give Medicine Bonnet ceremonial, 388; of Warriors, 318, 319; of Brings-down-the-Sun to speak the truth, 418\nWakes-up-last, murder of family, 152, 304, 504, 518\nWarbler, myrtle, 11; yellow, 11, 481\nWar horse of Morning Eagle, 226\nWheel and arrow game, 392, 421\nWhisky sale to Indians prohibited by Government, 518\nWhite Calf, head chief, 34\nWhite Grass, medicine man, 77, 323\nWhite Throat, 389\nWhite Weasel, Blackfeet name for author, 93, 401\nWinter Season, name for, 486 Wissler, Dr. Clark, 519\nWolf Medicine, legend of, 473-478\nWolf Plume (Mu-koi-sa-po), owner of Beaver Bundle, 153, 467; initiation in Medicine Pipe Society, 257-270\nWolves, ravages of game by, 74\nWoman's Pipe, 266\nWomen, morality of Blackfeet, 184, 185; position of, 188, 189; industries of, 230-237\nWren, winter, 11\nYellowstone River, 1, 216, 469\nYellowthroat, 389; Maryland, 504","title":"The Old North Trail: Index","type":"page"}