NAPI The creator god of the Blackfoot Indians, having made the world he fashioned men from clay, and by a river introduced himself to them. He was asked by a woman, how long they should live---should they die, and he decided the issue by tossing a piece of wood into the river, and saying that if it floated, in four days after death people would rise again, but if it sank, there would be no escape from death. The chip floated, but the woman, drunk on power, seized a stone and pronounced the same conditions on its fate. It of course sank, and death came to the Blackfoot.