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Native America Speaks - Raven Heavy Runner
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Free.Location:
Chewing Black Bones Campground3719 Highway 89, Babb, MT 59411
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Members of the Blackfeet Nation and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes share personal knowledge of their history and culture as part of the Native America Speaks program.
This program began in 1982 and is the longest running Indigenous speaker series in the National Park Service. Native America Speaks is made possible by donations to the Glacier National Park Conservancy.
Raven Heavy Runner is an enrolled Blackfeet member and was a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school youth, Seattle street kid, U.S. Army veteran, LGBTQ activist, stage actor, Two-Spirit leader, Native activist, college graduate, social worker, and storyteller. He was partly raised on the Blackfeet Reservation with his grandparents. Since his grandparents did not have a TV, his grandfather would entertain the kids with stories of Napi and the dog days (prior to horses). Oral history and storytelling permeated Raven’s childhood. In his stories, his grandfather and his people live on. As said by Chief Dan George, “If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways”.
This event takes place at the Chewing Blackbones Campground, located along the shores of Lower St. Mary Lake, 6.2 miles north of St. Mary, on Highway 89.
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