American Indian culture Archives

Relationship building on Blackfeet Reservation

By Tuesday, our team had fallen into a comfortable morning routine of navigating the showers, having breakfast together, and assembling our brown-bag lunches of peanut butter and/or jelly sandwiches. After receiving our assignments in the morning, we headed off in several different directions. Many in our group stayed at the Blackfeet Community College to work […]

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July 30, 2013/by Global Volunteers

The Openness and Willingness to Share the Blackfeet Culture

Who knew we’d be exposed to Blackfeet culture immediately on our first work day? In preparation, one of our team members, Julie, started us off with an emotional historical message from Chief Seattle: “How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. Every part of this […]

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July 29, 2013/by Global Volunteers

Family Volunteering, Volunteer Voices Montana

Meaningful Work on the Reservation

This is simply an amazing experience for my daughter and for me. I’m profoundly appreciative that I had the opportunity to do some work related to psychiatry (although I still would have been happy to paint fences!). The treatment program where I did an in-service with the staff on debriefing is really pretty amazing. They were remarkably receptive, […]

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June 30, 2013/by Michele Gran

Volunteer Voices Montana

More Cultural Experiences on the Blackfeet Reservation

Today Ann H, Molly, Kelley and Sunny continued to work with the children at the Nurturing Center. They got a new little boy last night so now there are five girls and two boys all aged six and under. Sunny spent time with Pat who does the cooking at the Safe House making possible menus […]

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June 27, 2013/by Michele Gran

Cultures and Traditions Montana

Blackfeet Reservation Volunteer Learns about Natural Remedies in Time for Healing

Blackfeet reservation volunteers learn about plants

by Blackfeet Reservation Volunteer Kelsey It so happened that the morning I wake up with a sore throat and stuffy nose is the same day we go visit the Blackfeet “medicine woman” in Browning. But more about that later. I slowly got out of bed, falling a few steps behind the rest of the […]

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June 30, 2012/by Michele Gran

Family Volunteering, Volunteer Voices Montana

Father and Daughter Serve Others on the Blackfeet Reservation

Global Volunteer and father, Mark, describes serving others on the Blackfeet Reservation with his daughter. This morning when the daily volunteer projects were assigned, we got the word that our help was needed in the town of Babb. Tai asked me to get her lunch together while she gathered her work clothes. I hastily packed two […]

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June 21, 2012/by Michele Gran

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