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1. Glenbow Museum
2. Wikipedia (of course)
3.Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park
4. First Stories North America

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Things I've learned and want to mention:

The Blackfoot people had a very rich heritage and are very good at recording history.

The Blackfoot people were in a lot of conflicts and really liked recording those conflicts

Art and storytelling are both very highly valued things in Blackfoot society

The Blackfoot used horses a lot more than I first thought they did

In some ways, the story robe format influenced comic books.

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This is an extremely old blackfoot story robe 

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This is an extremely old blackfoot story robe 

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I made my story robe based off of the blackfoot creation story. I did this because I haven't seen any robes based on this story. The first panel shows Naki walking in and creating animals, trees, and mountains. The second panel show him resting on the ground after a hard day. The third panel shows Naki creating vegetation for the animals to eat. The fourth panel shows Naki creating the first humans: a woman and a child. The fifth panel shows Naki breathing on animals to turn them into more humans. The sixth panel shows Naki showing humans how to making weapons for hunting. The seventh panel shows Naki teaching humans how to hunt buffalo. The final panel shows Naki leaving after making everything and teaching humans what the needed to know.

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Story robe artists had many different styles. Most put a lot of color in but some only used black. Some would use panels to separate events and some wouldn't. This is one of the cool things about story robes: they are all different. You could have two people draw the same event and they would both be different.

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This story robe was made about WWII and the interactions the Blackfoot people had in it. The panels show snipers, people traveling through trenches, a house being raided, and canons being shot.

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Most stores were recorded using buffalo hide but some were made using other things. Some people would record them on their shields and others would record them on their tipi covers. These different ways allowed for more people to see their feats. Some people would also record them on ledger books.

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A recurring theme in story robes is something called scalping. Scalping is something that happened in warfare a lot. Scalping is when you cut someone's scalp off of their head with the hair still attached . You would use these scalps as trophies of war.

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The main character here is depicted in yellow doing multiple war exploits. He can be seen with women, with four different scalps, and shooting from behind a dead horse.

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Story robes were about battles and other events that happened. The story robes were either made by a Recorder who would document for historical reasons only or they could be made by the warriors themselves where they would use it for storytelling.

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Why there are different colors on story robes.

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Why there are different colors on story robes.

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Usually colors would signify different armies or animals. The main character/characters would also be a different color than everyone else to help them stand out. All colors on these robes were from pigments found in nature.

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Wolf Collar was another story robe artist. Just like Raw Eater, he liked to create story robes based on older designs.

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Raw Eater was a blackfoot story robe artist who liked to make them based on very old styles of story robes.

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A Siksika robe that was made and belonged to Raw Eater

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A Siksika robe that was made and belonged to Raw Eater

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A robe that belonged to  Wolf Collar, Siksika, from the late 1800's

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A robe that belonged to  Wolf Collar, Siksika, from the late 1800's

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This is a website that allows you to look at this story robe and see what different parts of it mean

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This is a website that allows you to look at this story robe and see what different parts of it mean

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Pictograph Robes
of the
Plains First Nations
Robes are below.

Thousands of years ago, people recorded their history and beliefs on stone outcrops which dot the Canadian plains. This tradition continued among the Siksika, Blood and Peigan who painted their stories on tipi covers and liners, bison robes, and even pages of ledger books supplied by the Deparment of Indian Affairs Agent. Occasionally, these drawings were made by the tribe's historian and record an important event for each year. These accounts, called winter counts, are historical textbooks. More frequently, however, pictographs recorded stories of battles, horse raids, or some other important endeavours.

These stories are recorded in two ways. On the one hand, the recorder painted stories he had heard recounted by warriors. These paintings are strictly historical documentation. In other cases, the men painted accounts of their own feats as they retold stories about their lives. With each telling, the man would recall the Power that helped him in a particular circumstance and ask that all who heard his story be blessed similarly by the Power.

The bison hide pictograph in Warriors: A Journey Through Five Centuries, is a historical document. He Dog (Percy Creighton) recorded the activities of several renowned Blood leaders. Although He Dog compiled this work in the early 20th century, the people of whom he "wrote" all lived a century before.

Please click on an area of the robe to find its story!

A larger jpeg version (86 k) of this image is also available.

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Pictograph Robes of the Plains First NationsRobes are below. Thousands of years ago, people recorded their history and beliefs on stone outcrops which dot the Canadian plains. This tradition continued among the Siksika, Blood and Peigan who painted their stories on tipi covers and liners, bison robes, and even pages of ledger books supplied by the Deparment of Indian Affairs Agent.

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A robe about a battle that happened between the Cree and the Blackfoot

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A robe about a battle that happened between the Cree and the Blackfoot

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This robe depicts a battle between some Blackfoot warriors and some Cree warriors.