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In this spiritual

The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It spirituality and layered with meaningAt the age of sixty seven, Percy Bullchild (1915 1986), a Blackfeet Indian from Browning, Montana, with little formal education in English, set out to put the oral traditions and history of his people into a permanent written record. He regarded this undertakingto "write the Indian version of our own true ways in our history and legends," as he puts itas both a corrective and an instructive tool. Bullchild culled this remarkable collection of