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My name is Wilfred Yellow Wings Senior.

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I come from the Peigans.

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I’m an old Blackfoot historian.

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I’m a member of the Blackfoot Confederacy.

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I want to tell an old history about Napi. 

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Napi chose a large area of land, East of the Rockies.

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He put on there, all the different animals that walk on mother Earth,

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the water animals, the ones that fly.

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He built the rivers and landmarks in this area

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and they were all named in Blackfoot.

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When He came to build, put the buffalo on Mother Earth,

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all the rest would kill another, eat one another.

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“But the buffalo,” He said to himself, “I should put on Mother Earth,

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people similar to me, so they can make use of the buffalo.”

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This natural area had natural boundaries.

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To the South was the Yellowstone River

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and to the West was the Rocky Mountains, as far North

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as the Saskatchewan River, East to the Cyprus Hills. 

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Now He knew all the areas and when He put the buffalo on Mother Earth,

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He built, He put everything in twos, the male and female. 

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So the buffalo had a male and a female.

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And to the same area where he molded the different animals,

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He took clay, he molded it into a person.

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He opened its mouth and blew into it.

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It started breathing.

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He already tanned some hides for the breech cloth, leggings and shirt.

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And as they were walking away,

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He was to be able to communicate with all the different animals.

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And He communicated with the man.

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And He figured: “I made all the animals in pairs.

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Let’s go back to that clay and I’ll make the woman."

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So they went back to the clay and they molded a woman,

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clothed her with buck skin.