This collection contains 21 brief stories told by members of the Fort Belknap (Montana) American Indian community. These tales of the Assiniboine, Sioux, and Gros Ventres include legends, ghost stories, and reminiscences of heroic deeds, traditional life, and unusual events. Recollections of the past contain descriptions of the daily life of the Gros Ventres, traditional religious practices, dances, hunting, the annual fair in Hays, Montana, wild horse roundups, the Civilian Conservation Corps and WPA projects during the 1930s, and the forced removal of Indian children to boarding school by the police. Numerous pen and ink drawings illustrate the text. (SV)