Blackfoot

In today’s society, many people see horses as these beautiful and majestic creatures, but what they don’t really see is the different purposes that these animals have to do on a daily basis. Some are used as either studs or broodmares, some are used to race, some are used to work in the fields, some are used to show, and many are used just for pleasure. Thoroughbreds and Clydesdales are the perfect examples to show the different tasks that horses are bred to do. Thoroughbreds originated in…

brother and her friends next door. During the time they lived there, they redid the tiles in the kitchen. Her dad let them color on the tiles that would be covered up. They were content there, but eventually they moved again to Blackfoot, Idaho. She attended Blackfoot High School and went on to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in dramatic and theatre arts four years later on June 26, 2025. She went on to star in the hit Broadway…

their question about whether she is American or Canadian as a joke in the beginning and then throughout the story, the guards slowly lost their sense of humor. Moreover, humor is not only used a literary technique but the fact that the mother is Blackfoot also significant. “Coyote went fishing, one day. That’s how it all started” (Citation). The mother was telling the narrator a story about the coyote figure, who is the trickster figure in the mythology of several Native people that deals with…

Orphan Boy and The Elk Dog” by A Blackfoot Legend. This story “explains the origin of an important part of the North American Blackfeet culture—horses. Horses did not always exist in North America. Spanish explorer Hernando Cortés brought the first horses to Mexico in 1519, and they quickly spread northward. By the 1600s, many Native American tribes had captured and tamed wild horses.” -Textbook This response willexamine The Orphan Boy and The Elk dog by the Blackfoot and how they used literary…

family that she has not seen in a long time. Not only this, but she can now eat endless amounts of chocolate cake without gaining an ounce. While her life on this earth has come to end, she shall remain endless. Halie was born April 11, 1999, in Blackfoot, Idaho, to Daryn…

James Welsh (November 18, 1940 – August 4, 2003) was an award winning Native American writer and founding father of the Native American Renaissance movement, a literary movement for Native American authors. Within the movement, Welch is notable for his works Winter in the Blood (1974) and Fools Crow (1986) James Welch was born in Browning, Montana on Indian territory on November 18, 1940. For the majority of his early life, Welch lived and studied within Native American cultures. Welch was very…

he spends six years in study and returns home with his degree. Paul, on the other hand, chooses to remain close to home, wanting to remain connected to the uncaught fish in the Blackfoot River. When Norman is reunited with Paul for the first time after returning home, they go fishing on their "family river", the Big Blackfoot. As Norman attempts to reconnect with the river after such a long absence, he spies his brother, and realizes that, while he was away at college, his brother had become not…

I once again had no friends and failed in my classes. The beginning of my sixth-grade year was one of the hardest times of my life. My mother was dating again and one of them got her to move to Blackfoot, Idaho. We moved around Thanksgiving time and I went to Blackfoot Sixth Grade Center for one week then we moved back to Montana. I did not go back to school until after Christmas break. Something at this point switched everything for me and my future of education. This is when I…

The statement “I am…” can be answered in various ways dependent on the person. Some people may use terms to represent the things they have experienced in the past that have affected them, whether it be positive or negative. Others may use words to express significant items, literal or figurative, that have changed their lives. Three texts that we have read, “Borders” by Thomas King, “Indian Education” by Sherman Alexie, and “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, all have characters who are…

Russell paintings, considering that he produced many versions of the canvas “Indian Women Moving Camp”. The seasonal rounds of plain tribes gave Russell opportunities of showing Indians women riding proudly on their horses. This painting shows the Blackfoot tribe women moving camp. “While the men rode ahead and guarded the flanks, the women moved their children and worldly possessions. The Indian in this painting were carefully placed by Russell. With little detail around the animals and people,…