of memory and imagination

conveyed by John G

a silent but ever-present entity in the book

Examining a range of stories and storytellers across time and space

and that of the non-Native oilmen

Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet science of memory and imaginationRosalyn R. LaPier demonstrates that Blackfeet history is incomplete without an understanding of the Blackfeet people's relationship and mode of interaction with the "invisible reality" of the supernatural world. Religious beliefs provided the Blackfeet with continuity through privations and changing times. The stories they passed to new generations and outsiders reveal the fundamental philosophy of Blackfeet existence namely, the belief that they