the North Blackfoot, we have only the statement of other Indians that
the sun dance was the same. The Sarsi[21] also had the very same form
and we may suspect the Kutenai as well. At least, my Piegan informants
asserted that the Kutenai had the sun dance from them. The problem here,
however, must rest until we have more data, though Hale is of the
opinion that the Blackfoot gradually displaced the Kutenai and took over
many Plains traits from them.[22]
FOOTNOTES:
[19] McLean, _ibid._, 231-237; McQuesten, _ibid._, 1169-1177.
[20] This series, volume 11, 410-418, 430-435.
[21] Goddard, Pliny Earle, "Sarsi Texts" (_University of California
Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology_, vol. 11, no. 3,
Berkeley, 1915), 192-195.
[22] Hale, H., "On the North-Western Tribes of Canada" (_Report,
Fifty-seventh Meeting, British Association for the Advancement of
Sciences_, 173-200, London, 1888), 198.