Blackfoot Summer Art Show
“MISTAKISTS - MOUNTAINS”
MONDAY, JUNE 7 TO MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2010
OPENING HOURS: DAILY FORM 10 AM TO 6 PM
Lodgepole Gallery in Browning likes to contribute a Blackfeet artistic perspective to Glacier Park’s centennial celebration. To the Blackfoot people the Rocky Mountains are the backbone of the world. The mountains have been a place to hunt, for vision quests, to gather roots, berries and medicines. Mountains are habitat of some of the most powerful animals and birds. Chief Mountain (Ninastako) is the home of the Thunderbird, and ancient ceremonies have come from the Rocky Mountain region. Mountains are mystical and magical.
Blackfoot artists have always gained visual inspiration from the mountains. Our artists will express in their works how they view the mountains in both contemporary and traditional media.
Meet Blackfeet artists on
SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2010 FROM 3 P.M. TO 6 P.M.
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| Examples of Blackfeet Art with Mountain Images | ||
BLACKFEET AND GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
In 1895 the Blackfeet people agreed to sell what is now Glacier National Park, an area of 1,500,00 acres for one Dollar an acre. It was to be in the beginning only a protected area, and the Blackfeet retained their rights to hunt, fish gather wood and berries also other subsistence rights. This reduced the Blackfeet Reservation from 3,000,000 acres to 1,500,000 acres.
This sale came about under very difficult economic conditions; no more buffalo and the need for greenback dollars. The Blackfeet people were starving and their nation was in a dramatic change. Under dire circumstances not necessarily by desire the land was sold. In 1910 Glacier was made into a national park, and all the rights made under the sales agreement with the Blackfeet were no longer honored, except Blackfeet people have free entrance to the park. These issues are still questioned today as well as the boundery lines from Glacier National Park.
