Article: Water Spirit's gift of horses: a play based on a Blackfoot tale.(Play)

Characters: Narrator, Boy-alone, Water Spirit, Young-son, Medicine-wolf, Sign-talker, Old Left-hand, and Buffalo-that-walks.

Narrator: In the days before horses, an orphan boy lived with the Blackfoot. The boy was so poor that he knew he must seek the secret power of the gods in order to make a place for himself in the world. So he set out on a vision quest. He slept alone on a high mountain, prayed near great rocks, fasted beside a river, and finally traveled beyond the Sweetgrass Hills to a large lake, but still no sign came to him.

Boy-alone: I give up. I'm never going to see a vision. (Starts to cry.)

Narrator: In that lake lived a very old ...

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