Origin of the Beaver Bundle
Long ago, in an ancient ceremony, wetland creatures shared their power with the Blackfoot. Their gifts are preserved in a sacred collection called the Beaver Bundle. Each springs’s rebirth of the wetlands is celebrated with ritual and song as the bundle is reopened. The wetland’s riches still lie before us.
Origin of the Beaver Bundle Lesson
Key Words
Siksikaitsitapi – Blackfoot people
Paahtomahksikimi – Waterton Lake
Ksisskstaki Aahkoinnimaan – Beaver Pipe
(Ksisskstakimopistaan) – Beaver Bundle
Iiyaohkimiiksi – Beaver People
Kimmapiipitsin – To be empathetic
Aatsimoyihkaan – Prayer
Iihtsipaitapiiyo’pa – Creator
Iiyaohkimaaki – Beaver woman
Iiyaohkimii – Beaver man
Kisskstakioyis – Beaver lodge
Piikanisssini – Declaration
Ihpipo’to’tsp/Omai’taksin – Value
Nitsitapi inihka’simistsi – Blackfoot names
(Siksikaitsitapi inihka’mistsi)
