Blackfoot Ceremony: A Qualitative Study of Learning
Theses
Author/Creator
Donald Duane Pepion
Description
Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--Montana State University-Bozeman, 1999.
Powwow dancer, Boye Ladd, relates traditional teachings on various topics relating to First Nations culture, including information about the sacred drum, respect for other people and groups, and the right to wear an eagle feather.
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Uses the Madison Buffalo Jump State Park as a starting point to discuss the buffalo's importance in the economies, cosmologies, social organization, and spiritual life of Indigenous peoples of the plains. Recommended for use with Grade 9-12 students.
Questions about the legendary little people are raised by the author after someone tugged on a house guest's hair.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.5.