Cultural Workshop Hikes and Presentations
When hiking Blackfeet tribal lands a Blackfeet Nation Conservation/Recreation $20 Permit is required. Purchase here!
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Cultural Hike Workshop
Full Day $225. We meet at 8:30 a.m. - Trailhead at 9 a.m. - End at 4:30 p.m.
Partial Day $180, end at 1 p.m.
(Payment: Venmo, cash, or check)
Easy to moderate (Up to 6 miles)
Moderate to hard (6 miles and up)
$20 Lunch is provided (non-GMO, organic ingredients). Sample meal: healthy sandwich, scrumptious protein bar, berries, variety nuts, raw veggies. Will adhere to dietary restrictions.
Cultural Hike General Agenda
Introduction: open invocation in our tribal traditional way, story guides and guests swap greetings and backgrounds
Group starts the hike in solitude, time for meditation, and reflection
Group stops for indigenous storytelling, historical knowledge of the landscape and bonus workshop. (Q and A)
Themes are as follows:
History of landscape territories, historical account stories, and traditional knowledge
Treaties and history before Montana
Storytelling and how it connects us
Indigenous oral traditional stories and songs
Indigenous songs that connect us to the natural world around us
Indigenous dances and songs
Survival skills from Native military veteran guides and old tribal war stories and songs
Indigenous language and it's meaning in our world around us and identity
Indigenous Led Conservation
Plant identification and plant medicines
Climate change efforts in Indian Country
Traditional societies ceremonial protocol
Indigenous war stories and survival skills
Visual storytelling with smartphone/camera
Writing your story, essay memoir style, journalism writing
and more...
Restart hike: reflection and connection.
Return our hike toward vehicles with an additional stop for traditional stories and interchange reflection (Q and A)
A "See you on the trails" wrap up.
Offer custom & private group cultural workshop hikes. 2021 Freeflow Institute group.
Free hikes offered at Native America Speaks program. June-August.
TESTIMONIALS
Kamille Bergquist (2022)
“"The connection to the land, the physical exertion of the hike, the palpability of the traditional songs and Blackfeet histories were an experience I will cherish forever! Our group (Montana Youth Challenge Academy) spent the day with Lailani and Titus and though we began the adventure as strangers, the experience quickly developed new connections and friendships. As the sun set on another beautiful fall day we descended the mistakis; our minds brimming with new understandings and knowledge of the land and a different perspective of the history endured by its people. We experienced firsthand the power of oral histories and their much needed role in all of our lives, especially the lives of youth. I would encourage anyone with a passion for the outdoors and a hunger for new perspectives, to join Iron Shield Creative for an epic outdoor experience.”
Alex Hanich (2021)
“This workshop was so amazing. Being outside of Glacier National Park, it’s so important to get these stories from the people here, and a narrative every person that visits Glacier should know. ”
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