Description

The Blackfoot fed themselves by luring buffalo into a “piskun,” a corral with a cliff at the end, where the buffalo would fall and be butchered for meat, tools and clothing. Often the people’s only source of food, if the buffalo herds stayed away from the piskun, then starvation soon followed. This elemental tale recounts the myth of a young woman who marries the Great Buffalo to save her people and brings her father back from the dead with her powerful medicine. Astonished by her sacred song, the Great Buffalo teach the Blackfoot the Buffalo Dance.

14 minutes

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