Bull Lodge

Article abstract: A great medicine man of the Gros Ventre tribe, Bull Lodge was a powerful spiritual leader, who was the last shaman to hold the powers of the tribe's sacred Feathered Pipe.

Little is known about the early life of Bull Lodge, but much of his later life was documented by his daughter Garter Snake, who was born in 1868. Bull Lodge was the son of a Gros Ventre woman and a French trader whom he never meet. He grew up among the Gros Ventre (A’aninin) people in the vicinity of Milk River, a tributary of the Missouri River, in what is now northern...

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