AN EXHIBITION all about the Blackfoot Indians of North America is on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.
"Blackfoot Indians. Nitsitapiisinni: Our Way of Life" will be showing at the Museum until June 6.
More than 200 real artefacts as well as video displays present the Blackfoot way of life from the past to a very different life on the reservations today. You can learn about traditional beliefs and ceremonies, hear stories from the ancestors and find out what impact Europeans had on Blackfoot society.
The Story Robe of Crop Eared Wolf, a great warrior and leader among the Kainai, will be told and there will be a reconstruction of a tipi and witness a ceremony taking place. The right to use a tipi design is seen as a great privilege and must be formally transferred in a ceremony.
The exhibition has been put together by the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada, in collaboration with Blackfoot leaders and members of the Blackfoot Confederacy.
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