2025-12-17

1930: The Sun God's Children

Here's another book documenting Native American traditions, published in 1930, thus entering the public domain on January 1 2026: it is a collection of myths and ceremonies of the Blackfoot Indians:

The Sun God's Children
by James Willard Schultz
Internet Archive

The author of the book is James Willard Schultz, whose Blackfoot name was Apikuni. You can read about Schultz's life and career at Wikipedia, and you can also read about the Blackfeet Nation.

The book is illustrated with many portraits of Blackfeet people; here is one of their chiefs, Crow Big-Foot, Issapóómahksika, who you can read about at Wikipedia:



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