Heading back to Swiftcurrent Motor Inn to finish packing up for our 5-nite backpack in the Belly River. This is a picture of Akipuni Mountain with the sun on it. Later we would get a 20 minute rain storm that came in sideways.

Apikuni (formerly spelled Appekunny) is a Blackfeet name that was given to George Willard Schultz, an easterner who moved to Montana as a young man and became enthralled with the culture of the Blackfeet Indians. He traded with them, learned their language and ways, and eventually was adopted into the tribe. His Blackfeet name means "White-spotted Robe" or "Scabby Robe," that is, one that was badly tanned, leaving hard spots. He married a Piegan Blackfeet Indian woman by the name of Natahki (appropriately, a beautiful, seldom visited tarn at the head of Apikuni Creek dons her name), and lived as a full member of the tribe for many years. A gifted writer and guide, he befriended George Bird Grinnell, and began writing articles on the Blackfeet that were published in Grinnell's magazine. Over time, his wife would pass, and he would leave the tribe. Remarried, this time to a white woman, Schultz chronicled his days with the Blackfeet in books such as My Life As An Indian. Forever fond of his days spent on the Great Plains of Montana, when Schultz died at the ripe age of 88 he asked that his body be interred on the Blackfoot Reservation near an old buffalo fall there