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Story source: Blackfeet Indian Stories by George Bird Grinnell (1915).The Smart Woman Chief:
Men and women did not know each other long ago, the men were put in one place, and the women in another. The men were made strong, but the women were not.
The women were the smartest, they knew how to craft things and create clothing.
One day an old man was traveling and he noticed there were women. The women were frightened, they didn't know what animal was trying to come to them and laid down to hide. The old man saw them laying and assumed they were dead. The woman tricked him and used her dead weight to let her arm slap his face and make his nose bleed.
They both ran and he lost them, he was very angry and this is how women found out about men. The woman chief called to the men and asked their chief if they wanted to have wives. She knew they would agree, and called them to a feast in their lodge. The women saw the men come and they went to select their husbands. The woman chief was tired and she had been making dried meat so her clothes were covered in blood and she was dirty. The old man turned his back on her and would not go with her. She went back to the camp to change since she was refused for being dirty. When she got dressed, he recognized her but she would not pay him any attention. He was so angry that he started to try to break down their walls so the women turned him into a pine tree.
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