Rod and gun . ^ Blackfeet Bringing in Branches for the Sun Lodge. The Sun Dance Of The Blackfeet nv CALVIN McQUE&TEX. THE Sun Dance gatherings of theBlackfeet are the last survivingremnants of the tribal life of apeople who once ranged supremeand untrammelled over a stretch of terri-tory as large as the whole of their numbers are more than deci-mated by war and disease. Crowded tothe wall by a foreign invader whose civi-lisation they seem utterly unable to as-similate, they drag out a miserable ex-istence cooped up within the narrow lim-its of their reservations, and hud
Rod and gun . ^ Blackfeet Bringing in Branches for the Sun Lodge. The Sun Dance Of The Blackfeet nv CALVIN McQUE&TEX. THE Sun Dance gatherings of theBlackfeet are the last survivingremnants of the tribal life of apeople who once ranged supremeand untrammelled over a stretch of terri-tory as large as the whole of their numbers are more than deci-mated by war and disease. Crowded tothe wall by a foreign invader whose civi-lisation they seem utterly unable to as-similate, they drag out a miserable ex-istence cooped up within the narrow lim-its of their reservations, and huddled to-gether round the distributing offices ofthe Government which feeds them. But at these annual gatherings are tobe seen the last broken outlines of theirunique social organization, the last spirit-less performance of their weird and frenz-ied religious rites, and the last faint gleamof the wild, fierce and almost heroic spiritwhich has made these and other red menof North America appeal to the imagina-tion of
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