Blackfoot (Blackfeet)
Films:
-
interviews about old customs and skills
-
more discussion of old skills, especially leather work
-
Black and white home video on building traditional regalia (Blackfeet headdress), Blackfeet Tipi, and discussions of Blackfeet artists and their work
-
tour of the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning, Montana
-
drum playing, singing, and dancing
-
speakers at Montana’s Native American Day
-
continuation of state’s Native American Day officials plus parade
-
elderly artist explains doll-making—artist John Bearmedicine
-
singing and dancing
-
children—Blackfeet Crafts Association—tipi designer—rodeo
-
puppetry with Indian Marionette Club
-
dancing—cleaning deer hide—mask making—rodeo
-
Making an Indian drum
-
covered: drum-making demonstration ends—Molly Bushu, tipi maker
-
shows Native American lifestyles and culture—focus on Blackfeet family—show construction of a tipi
-
Showman Tim McCoy explains sign language among Plains Indians with emphasis on Blackfeet and Blood tribes