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A man had two wives and took care of them, fed
them, etc.
o
The two wives were not good at taking care of
their home
·
The man decided to move his home away from the
main camp in order to teach his wives how to improve
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He would sit at the top of a butte on a buffalo skull
to observe the buffalo and check for enemies
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The women were not happy with their isolation
and so they decided to kill their husband so that they could return to the main
camp
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They dug a hole where he usually sits and attempted
to hide it
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The man went to sit on the skull, which was
placed on the sticks covering the hole, and he fell through
o
The man did not die, but he was hurt and thought
he was going to die of hunger
·
The women returned to the big came and told
everyone that their husband was dead
·
A wolf passes
by and spots the man in the hole
o
The wolf then calls to other wolves and coyotes,
badgers, and kit-foxes
·
The wolf decides that they would dig him out and
make him their brother and that he would live with the big wolves
·
The wolves took the man to an old blind wolf who
had amazing power
o
He gave the man hands that look like those of a
wolf
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People would usually make holes in the buffalo
enclosure and set traps at the holes so that any predators that would crawl in
would be killed and then skinned
·
When all of the wolves went to enter the
enclosure, the wolf man said that he would spring all the traps so that they
could enter safely
·
It worked and they kept repeating the process,
until one day they entered and only found a skinny, sick bull
·
The wolf man cried out upon seeing the bull and
exclaimed that they gave them bad food
·
The people decided to leave a nice piece of meat
out, which attracted the wolf man
o
they surrounded the wolf man and discovered his
identity
·
It is then that the truth is discovered, and the
women are given to the punishing society
o
The women were never seen again
Grey Wolf. Source: Wikipedia.
Bibliography: This story is part of the Blackfoot unit and can be found here. Story source: Blackfeet Indian Stories by George Bird Grinnell (1915).
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