TOM AND OUR SPRING HUNT 08

Cat Lake First Nation still eat fish...it's still as yummy as ever !

A home video to be used for teaching, teaching on how to look after, and continue our ways of life, life on the land. Ways of life as a treaty right. Treaty right to perserve of culture and empower our future for our childern. Also to teach others that we still matter, in every politicial process, to be seen as a Nation within a Nation.

There is a difference in Aboriginal people in different areas.

The worth of Blackfoot women was largely judged by the number and quality of hides they produced. Women were also responsible for butchering, curing, and preparing meat. Other roles for Blackfoot women included making, erecting, and owning the tipis. According to John C. Ewers in Indian Life on the Upper Missouri, many of the more popular Blackfoot traditional healers were women.

The Blackfeet have a complex system of beliefs, some of which today may be as much unconscious as conscious. For example, in the past we avoided eating fish or using canoes because we believe that rivers and lakes hold special power through habitation of Underwater People called the Suyitapis. The Suyitapis are the power source for medicine bundles, painted lodge covers, and other sacred items.

Snake people eh? That what Blackfoot people called people who eat "fish."

Does that sound like Self-government to you !?!

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