Your Story

You will read from some of the short stories below, how songs from Blackfoot Sky have been used to assist museum programs, healing programs, First Nations community presentations, post secondary student research, and teacher professional development.

The coolest stories come from those who use the songs of Blackfoot Sky to teach in our public elementary, jr/middle and high school classroom presentations in conjunction with Provincial cultural infusion initiatives and lessons.

If you find you are able to use songs from Blackfoot Sky in your community, school or organization, please do! Please tell us about your event and we’ll highlight it here.

“My History” from Blackfoot Sky has been featured in the recent educational video produced for the Education department of the Royal Alberta Museum: “Stories in Stone: An Exploration of Alberta, the Art of StoryTelling and First Nations Culture”.

The video production, titled Stories on Stones, is approximately 14 minutes in length and will address specific learner outcomes contained in the Alberta Education curriculum by presenting the pictographs and petroglyphs found at Writing on Stone Provincial Park as stories or narratives of First Nations people.

“Watch Over Me” from Blackfoot Sky is featured in the “Wellbriety” video program developed by the Missoula Indian Centre, in Missoula, Montana. This video was developed as a program of the center as a community healing tool used to help Native American People in the United States learn more about intergenerational effects of Residential Schools in Canada and the United States. “Wellbriety” is a component of a national movement of the White Bison Organization which uses traditional healing and the Medicine Wheel teachings to promote healing and awareness about Historical trauma which includes the Residential/Boarding School era. For more information please visit: http://www.missoulaindiancenter.org/