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=== Blackfoot creation story ===
{{see also|Blackfoot religion}}
{{see also|Blackfoot mythology}}
The [[creation myth]] is part of the oral history of the Blackfoot nation. It was said that in the beginning, Napio floated on a log with four animals. The animals were: Mameo (fish), Matcekups (frog), Maniskeo (lizard), and Sopeo (turtle). Napio sent all of them into the deep water, one after another. The first three had gone down and returned with nothing. The turtle went down and retrieved mud from the bottom and gave it to Napio.

He took the mud and rolled it in his hand and created the earth. He let it roll out of his hand and over time, it has grown to what it is today. After he created the earth, he created women first, followed by men. He had them living separately from one another. The men were shy and afraid, but Napio said to them to not fear and take one as their wife. They had done as he asked, and Napio continued to create the buffalo and bows and arrows for the people so that they could hunt them.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Maclean|first=John|title=Blackfoot Mythology|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/i223360|access-date=2020-07-30|journal=The Journal of American Folklore |year=1893|volume=6|issue=22|pages=165–172|publisher=University of Illinois Press|doi=10.2307/533004|jstor=533004}}</ref>