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I’m not sure if the fact that the Daniel/Nathan Boone Home in Defiance, Mo, has accepted me as a Blackfoot re-enactor, is good news or not…now that I have accepted, I’m filled with trepidation.
I can handle a few words of Native language, and, my character was traded for a black stallion…I have lived with the white man for many years, but, continue to carry on my tribal traditions and dress….DRESS!!!!! Help!
Any and all advice would be appreciated…if this is not the proper forum, I’m sorry, but, I really need some ideas….other than back out.
Joyce
WHICH Blackfoot are you portraying? I assume it’s the “regular” Siksika Algonquin Blackfoot presently reservated in Montana. We are the “Other” Blackfoot from Virginia. A long disrupted group of Siouan tribes who were scattered 250 years ago and have a number of descendants who have traditionally referred to themselves as Blackfoot. I believe there is some connection between us and the band of Teton Sioux who call themselves Blackfoot, or Sihisapa. The VA Siouan word for Blackfoot is similar.
It looks like you need to be researching the Montana Blackfoot. Why have you been cast as a Siksika Blackfoot in Missouri? I wasn’t aware that they had much history there, but then I’ve never researched their history.
That was part of their plan to cast me as such…I think I can pull it off, though, and, I have lots of material to help with research, if it doesn’t work, then, it just won’t.
Joyce
Joyce,
Do you have specific documentatin of Blackfoot Indians in Missouri.
I have recently found some documentation for many Indian tribes passing through Missouri — the Ohio tribes mostly. They crossed the Mississippi in 1820 according to what I read.
Is this a play you are in? What historic period does it portray? Is it Lewis and Clark cerca 1803? Is it the state of Missouri or up the Missouri River? It wouldn’t be difficult for a Blackfoot Indian from tne West to travel down the Missouri River to St. Louis, but the return trip against the current would take longer.
Sounds like fun. Good luck with it.
vance
Hey Joyce look for books by Beverly and Adolph Hungry Wolf.
Beverly is from the Blood (kainai people) and Adolph ofcourse is German.
They have been publishing and researching for years.
I was raised 12 miles away from the Blood reserve, members of the Blackfoot Confederacy.
I have family and good friends there with the Bloods and the Piegans (“I don’t know how to spell it but it is prncned, PEE CUN EE, not pii coo nee like in the “Legend of Walks Far Woman” a movie).
The Hungry Wolf series is called the “Good Medicine Books”.
Best wishes Tom
Thanks everyone…my character for the rest of this year will just be “flavor”…not interacting with the tours…input has been mixed from this forum…I am just a “stickler” for authenticity , and wanted to do it correctly…after a couple of e-mails, I wish I had not even mentioned it…but thanks also for the encouraging ones…the Daniel Boone home here, is where he lived with Nathan, then died in 1820…the house was started in 1803, and completed in 1810….it’s not a “tourist-y” thing…and historicaly accurate..it’s right along the Missouri, and, Lewis & Cclark DID stop there along their journey.
Also, my great grandfather was a hunter, trapper and horse-trader…..I can imagine him traveling NW, and bringing back a “wife”.
Joyce
Joyce
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