Consists of interviews with the 83 year old informant about: the origin of the Iniskim (buffalo stones); black sickness and smallpox; whiskey before the Treaty period; the story of Turning Robe; different kinds of Blackfoot medicines; a list of Piskens remembered: Turning Robe, Little Person, Wolf Bedding, Young Scabby Bull, Blackfoot Fire, Mountain Chief, Iron Shield, Luck Man; Maistoxoatisi (War Chief); person at the front line of the Sun Dance circle; the story of Little Chief's feast; Ninonista and the whiskey trade; Old Sun and Three Suns raiding expeditions; living arrangements in the Blackfoot camp; and preparation for the Papisaxsiman Sun Dance.
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