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Blackfeet Indian Tipi Legend - How One Spot Recieved The Fish Tipi

Fish Tipi Design Fish Tipi of Mary and Tom Many Guns

A family who had a boy named One Spot camped by the river. He used to go down to the river where he often caught fish.

One night after he went to bed, a man came to him and said, "My son, I want you to come with me. I will show you something."

One Spot followed the man, and when they got to the river he saw a tipi. The man said, "My son, I have brought you here to see my tipi. You have been killing all my children, the fish. I will give you my tipi if you won't kill my children any more. If you take this tipi of mine you must not eat fish or kill them any more."

So One Spot promised not to kill any more fish. That is how he got the Fish Tipi.