Booklets available in the Level III 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 II sequences.

1 Story of the Seasons

The Confederated Tribes of the

Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
2 The Beginning of the Earth

The Confederated Tribes of the

Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
3 The Blacktail Dance

Blackfeet Tribe

4 How Marten Got His Spots
Kootenai Cultural Committee of
The Confederated Salish and
Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Reservation

5 Lost in the Fog
Jamestown-Clallam Tribe

6 How to Be a Friend
The Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon

7 How the Morning and Evening Stars
Came to Be
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the
Fort Peck Reservation

8 Raccoon’s Black Eyes and Ringed Tail
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the
Fort Hall Reservation

9 Coyote and Old Lady
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the
Fort Hall Reservation

10 Coyote and Trout

Kootenai Cultural Committee of
The Confederated Salish and
Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Reservation

11 How the Milky Way Got into the Sky
The Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon

12 Inkdomi and the Buffalo
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the
Fort Peck Reservation

13 Medicine Horse
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the
Fort Hall Reservation

14 The Good Hunter and Fisherman
Jamestown-Clallam Tribe

15 The Wild Buffalo Ride
Blackfeet Tribe

161 Ama Rock
Crow Tribal Historical and Cultural
Commission

17 The Man Who Loved Shell Money
Skokomish Tribe

18 Old Man Napi
Blackfeet Tribe

19 The Turtle Who Went to War
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the
Fort Peck Reservation

20 Coyote and the Mean Mountain Sheep
Salish Cultural Committee of
The Confederated Salish and
Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Reservation

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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Old Man Napi said, “I must go now, my Blackfeet people.
I will never die.
I will always take care of you.
Someday I will return.
Always give thanks to the Great Maker
in many, many ways.”




They learned how to take care of themselves.

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= i) THE INDIAN READING SERIES:
Stories and Legends of the Northwest


The following story, Old Man Napi,

is based on a legend told over and over
by many of our Blackfeet Indian people
about the creation of the world.


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“Someday other people will come to your land.

You will not want to live as they do.

But in time, you will add many of the new ways
to the old ways of living,”


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The animals would also be their food.
“You need not fear to eat their flesh?’ he said.
“The birds that fly have been made for you”


Old Man Napi created many men and women.

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The woman and child walked over the prairies.

They walked through the forests.

They went across rivers and swamps.

They learned about different kinds of things on the earth.




One day, Old Man Napi decided he would create
a woman and a child.

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Old Man Napi made other things as he traveled north.


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Old Man Napi said, “Our Great Maker has a plan
for all of you.

Respect what he has sent me to create for you.

Give many thanks to him for everything you have
and everything you will get.”


Old Man Napi went high up on Chief Mountain. ———
He gazed down at the earth.

He was very pleased.


Old Man Napi began making the world.
He began in the South.
He made the mountains.


The father of Old Man Napi was the Sun.
His mother was the Moon.


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The woman and child walked down to the river
with Old Man Napi.
The woman and child did not know how to do anything.
Old Man Napi pointed to the river.
He told them there would be fish for them to eat.


Old Man Napi walked north.
He made the prairies.


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Old Man Napi told the people how to get spirit power.

“Go away by yourself and go to sleep.

Something will come to you in a dream that will help you.

It might be an animal.

It might be a bird.

It might be an object.

Whatever is told to you, you must do”

That is how the first Indian people got along in the world —
by the power given to them in their dreams.


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Level III Book 18


Old Man Napi carried rocks with him.
He made the Sweet Grass Hills.


Old Man Napi made the rivers and streams.
He made the lakes.




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Old Man Napi told his people,

“You have everything you now need.
Nature will provide shelter and food.
Many more Indian people will be born

to live on this land.

You must live as one large family.
Be good and take care of each other”


Old Man Napi made the forests.


The woman and child learned about roots.

They learned about berries.
They learned about wild vegetables.

They learned they could eat these things.

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Old Man Napi turned toward the West,

disappearing in the Rocky Mountains.

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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. ineducation 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 and the 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
herM.A. in guidance and counseling from the University of
South Dakota and the University of Montana.

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 FSEA 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.

All four 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.

MELVIN TAILFEATHERS

Mr. Tailfeathers is a self-taught artist who has lived on the
Blackfeet Reservation all his life. His grandmother was a
Blackfeet medicine woman. Mr. Tailfeathers prefers to do
pen and ink sketches of Blackfeet life although he some-
times works with ceramic figurines.



He made images of buffalo out of clay.

The buffalo images stood up.

Old Man Napi made signs to the buffalo,
and they started to run.

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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 publica
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ion is not printed at the expense of the Federal Government.

Printed and bound in the United States of America


Old Man Napi made animals.
He made animals that live under the ground.
He made animals on the prairie.

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Old Man Napi made many birds.

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THE INDIAN READING SERIES:
Stories and Legends of the Northwest

Old Man Napi
Level III Book 18

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


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Old Man Napi said to the people,
“Those buffalo are your food.

Every part of them you will be able to use
in your life,”

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Old Man Napi kept traveling north.
He covered the plains with grass.
He made all kinds of roots.

He made all kinds of trees.

He made all kinds of berries.


He made animals that live in the forest.
He arranged the world as it was
before the coming of the people.

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