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DORIS BULLSHOE OLD PERSON

Mrs. Old Person has eighteen years experience teaching in
the Blackfeet Public School System. She has specialized in
remedial reading and has been Head Start Director-
Supervisor for ESEA Title I and Director of the Native Song
and Dance Program. She received her B.A. from Northern
Montana College and her M.A. in education from Arizona
State University. She has five children.

Mrs. Kennerly, Mrs. Tatsey, Mrs Marceau, and Mrs. Old
Person are the daughters of Lillian and Francis Bullshoe.
They were raised on a ranch near Badger Creek in the
Blackfeet Reservation countryside.

Allfour women had similar educational backgrounds, They
attended Mad Plume School (a one room rural school), the
Blackfeet Indian Boarding School, and all but Mrs. Tatsey
attended Flandreau Indian School in South Dakota. They
all graduated from Browning High School. At the present
time the four women are teaching in the Blackfeet Public
School System in Browning, Montana.

ROBERT TAILFEATHERS

Robert Tuilfeathers was born and raised on the Blackfeet
Reservation and graduated from Browning High School in
1970. After attending the University of Montana, he taught
in the Missoula Head Start Program as well as the Blackfeet
Head Start Program. During the summer of 1975, he taught
Indian art with the Upward Bound Program at the Univer-
sity of Montana. He plans to finish his degree in sociology
and continue his career in art.


Napiis a legendary figure in the Blackfeet
Indian culture. He can do anything and anything
can happen to him. There are a great number of
stories about him, passed on from generation to
generation by the older people to the younger ones.
Some of the stories are serious and some are
humorous. Many times the same story will have
several versions. The following story is one
which has been told over and over and is an example
of how Indians use humor to teach.

The bullberries referred to in the story are
also called buffalo berries. These berries can
be found in many parts of Montana.


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Napi was still angry about being stuck by the thorns.
He grabbed a big stick and started to beat
on the bullberry bushes.
He said, “Because you hurt my hands,
the only way anybody will ever be able to pick you
is by beating you with a stick.”

So, to this day, anyone wanting bullberries
has to beat the bushes with a stick
to get the berries off.


JOAN BULLSHOE KENNERLY

Mrs. Kennerly has twenty years of teaching experience in
the Blackfeet and Northern Cheyenne public school sys-
tems and was the first runnerup for the 1972 Montana
Teacher of the Year. She received her B.A. in education from
Northern Montana College and her M.A. in education from
Arizona State University. She was responsible for estab-
lishing Native American Day for the State, and was ap-
pointed by the Governor of Montana to serve on the Com-
mission on Post Secondary Education. She also was the
Chairperson of House Joint Resolution 60, which estab-
lished the Master Plan for Indian Education for the State of
Montana. She has two children.

JUNE BULLSHOE TATSEY

Mrs. Tatsey is a Blackfeet Indian with sixteen years experi-
ence in teaching grades one through eight and pre-school in
the public school system on the Blackfeet Reservation. She
received her B.S. in education from Northern Montana
College and her M.A. in guidance and counseling from the
University of South Dakota andthe University of Montana.
She was the reading supervisor and is now vice-principal at
K.W. Bergen Elementary School in Browning, on the
Blackfeet Indian Reservation.

CARMEN BULLSHOE MARCEAU

Mrs. Marceau is a Blackfeet Indian with eighteen years
teaching experience. She has had one year experience in
guidance and counseling on the Blackfeet Reservation and
is principal of Browning Elementary School. She received
her B.S. in education from Northern Montana College and
her M.A. in guidance and counseling from the University of
South Dakota and the University of Montana.


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Napi liked to swim and to dive into the water.
The water was very cool.
It made him feel very good.


One very hot day, Napi decided to go swimming in the creek.
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Napi looked funny as he became more and more angry.
His face got a darker red,
and his feather fell sideways on his head.
The baby birds began to laugh again.
“Do not laugh at me!” said Napi.
He grabbed their beaks
and pulled and stretched them apart.
Napi said, “This is for laughing at me.
From now on, all little birds will have big mouths.”


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Napi was beginning to get very hungry from swimming.
He decided to dive back into the water to get the berries.
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Booklets available in the Level II sequence are listed below. Numbers refer to the planned sequence of use
in the Teacher’s Manual. Materials developed by these tribes and others in the Northwest are included in

the Levels I and ITI sequences.

1 End of Summer
Crow Tribal Historical and Cultural
Commission

2 Thunder and the Mosquito
Muckleshoot Tribe

3 Why the Codfish Has a Red Face
Skokomish Tribe

4 How Wildcat and Coyote Tricked Each
Other

Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the
Fort Hall Reservation

5 Pat Learns About Wild Peppermint
Blackfeet Tribe

6 Picture Writing
The Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon

7 Grandma Rides in the Parade
Crow Tribal Historical and Cultural
Commission

8 The Bob-Tuiled Coyote
Northern Cheyenne Tribe
9 The Great Flood
Skokomish Tribe
10 The Rainbow
The Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
11 The Time the Whale Came to Jackson’s
Bay
Skokomish Tribe

12 Coyote and the Man Who Sits On Top
Salish Cultural Committee of
The Confederated Salish and
Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Reservation

13 The Crow
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the
Fort Peck Reservation

14 Tepee, Sun and Time
Crow Tribal Historical and Cultural
Commission

15 Water Story
Crow Tribal Historical and Cultural
Commission

16 How Birds Learned to Fly
The Fourteen Confederated Tribes
from the Yakima Nation

17 Napi and the Bullberries
Blackfeet Tribe

18 How Cottontail Lost His Tail
The Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon

19 Being Indian Is
The Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon

20 Why Animals and Man Can No
Longer Talk to One Another
The Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon

For order information and prices of the above booklets and the Teacher’s Manual, contact the publisher:

Educational Systems, Inc.
2360 Southwest 170th Street
Beaverton, Oregon 97005

(503) 649-7516




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Napi thought, “I know what to do.
Ill tie rocks on my feet so that I'll be heavier

and go down deeper into the water”
So Napi tied some rocks to his feet.

He slowly walked to the water
because the rocks were so heavy.


After Napi had swum for awhile, he sat on the bank to rest.
While he was sitting there, he looked into the water

and saw some delicious looking berries.
They were bright orange and looked plump and juicy.


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Copyright °1978 by the Blackfeet Tribe
Allrights reserved.

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of the National Institute of Education. It does not, however, necessarily reflect the
views of that agency.

This publication is not printed at the expense of the Federal Government.
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As Napi climbed out of the water,

some little birds in a nest started to laugh at him.
They sang, “Napi, Napi, that is only a reflection

on the water.
The real berries are on the bush.”


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Napi was very angry.
He did not thank the baby birds as he should have.
Instead, he went up the bank
to where the berries really were.
As he tried to pick the berries,
his hands were stuck by thorns.
He became more angry.


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Napi and the Bullberries
Level II Book 17

Developed by the Blackfeet Indians
Written by Joan Kennerly, Carmen Marceau, Doris Old Person, June Tatsey
Illustrated by Robert Tailfeathers

Joseph Coburn, Director
Pacific Northwest Indian Program
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory



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THE INDIAN READING SERIES: Stories and Legends of the
Northwest is a collection of authentic material cooperatively devel-
oped by Indian people from twelve reservations. Development ac-
tivities are guided by a Policy Board which represents the Indian
community of the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific Northwest Indian
Reading and Language Development Program Policy Board mem-
bers are:

* Warren Clements — Warm Springs
Chairman

¢ Morrie Jimenez — Klamath

¢ Joan Kennerly — Blackfeet

* Walter Moffett — Nez Perce

« Emmett Oliver — Quinault

¢ Bob Parsley — Chippewa

¢ Lloyd Smith — Warm Springs

¢ Max Snow

¢ Jeanne Thomas — Yakima


This time when Napi dove to get the berries,

he hit his head on a rock at the bottom of the creek.
Napi saw stars.
Half knocked out, he twisted and turned

to get to the top of the water.
He almost drowned because of the rocks tied to his feet.
When he got to the top, he was fighting mad!


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