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These stories come down from very ancient times. Grandfathers told them to their grandchildren, and they to their grandchildren, and so on from mouth to mouth. In 1913, George Bird Grinned, one of the most famous ethnographers of the late nineteenth century, published this volume.

Reproduction of the original: Blackfeet Indian Stories by George Bird Grinnell

George Bird Grinnell (September 20, 1849 - April 11, 1938) was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in 1870 and a Ph.D. in 1880. Originally specializing in zoology, he became a prominent early conservationist

George Grinnell has collected these classic Blackfeet stories.??They have been told from one?generation to the next and are written here as if told beside a?campfire. At the end, the author has included a brief history of the Blackfeet people.?

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