Alma Hogan Snell (Crow)

My name is Alma Hogan Snell. I am from Yellowtail, Montana. That's at the foothills of the Little Big Horn. Oh! The Big Horns, really. That's where I live with my husband. My daughter and her husband live above us. That's where I'm from. I'm a child of the Whistling Water. ...more

Barney Old Coyote (Crow)

My name is Barney Old Coyote. I'm a Crow Indian. I'm from the Crow Reservation in Montana.

In 1942 when my brother, Henry and I came home on a furlough before we went overseas, in a ritual that goes back into the tribal past and into the more recent practices, they had one of those old scouts do what we call a "warrior's blessing" for us. He did not fight at Little Big Horn ...more

Robert Four Star (Red Bottom Assiniboine)

My name is Robert Four Star. When I was born they gave me the name of Good War Paint. When they made me Chief of the Red Bottom in 1981, they gave me the name of Buffalo Stops Four Times, which was a name of one of my great grandfathers....more

Lewis Walks Over Ice

Okay, well, some of the ones we do is of course the Hot Dance or the War Dance, the Grass Dance. Contemporary people call it Powwow and also we have Sun Dance. Some tribes do that. That's what we call it....more

Peter Bigstone

My name is Peter Bigstone. I'm a full-blood Assiniboin from Stoutness, Saskatchewan. My grandfather had, he got shot as he was a little boy. His mother fell on top of him to guard him when he got shot on the buttocks...more

Dorrance Comes Last

Q. When we start out, just tell me your name and what you go by and like that.

Dorrance Comes Last. It's either Bodu, just a nickname I have you know, for a real long time, but my rap name is just Native Sioux-Per-Man...more

Ken Camel

Good day, how are you doing today? My name is C'o Si Nemqmqey. It's War Hoop Camel in Salish Pend D Oreille language. What I will describe to you today is the greeting ceremony of the Salish people. I want to note that it is since the 1600's since that is when t...more

Roger White Jr.

My name is Roger White, Jr. I'm originally from Fort Peck Fort Peck Reservation. I come from the Red Bottom Clan of Assiniboin, the Nakota, and it basically means "Red Root". Some people have said before it means there's a story behind it...more

Joe McGeshick

I'm Joe McGeshick. Born and raised here on the Fort Peck Reservation. Forty-two years old. I've been in Indian education for about twenty-five years, taught high school and college level. Currently teaching at Fort Peck Community College, Native American Studies...more

Curley Youpee

My name is Curley Youpee. I'm a Minicoujou Hunkpapa, Lakota and Hidatsa Dakota. I live on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Poplar, Montana. My ancestors came to Montana as a result of the Dakota uprising in Minnesota...more

Jack Gladstone

My name is Jack Gladstone a member of the Blackfeet Indian Nation. I'm enrolled on the Blackfeet Reservation in northwestern Montana and I'm a member of the Fisheater Clan of the Blood Division. Also I live currently between the Flathead Valley...more