Techno-Teen Scholarship Blog

On day 9 we woke up at the teepee camp to a pancake breakfast with sausage. From there we headed to the Head Smashed-In buffalo jump museum which is the best preserved jump site and learned how the indians would first choose which jump to use by the way the wind was blowing, then use smoke to move the buffalo, after that they dressed up like wolves to agitate the Buffalo, and finally a buffalo runner dressed in buffalo skins would run trying to get the herd to stampede over the edge while people on the sides of would make loud noises. It was a long process, but it gave them the meat they needed. After learning all of this information we went out to the jumpsite and got all of our pictures. Once we went back inside we walked around and learned more about what the indians used and how they lived.
We then left the jumpsite and went back to the teepee camp. The activity we did first was we learn 3 different kind of indian dances the rabbit dance, the owl dance, and the round dance. Now this was not my favorite activity because we had to have a partner and I did not find the dancing very fun. I was excited though about the screaming game I saw the other group playing and it involved yelling and running. When we switched groups I was very excited about playing. The objective was to run as far as you could yelling in one breath. I did not win in the practice when Marco beat Crisanto at very end or in the real game where it looked like Marco would but Crisanto did. Thy both did really good but, Crisanto won. Crisanto was going to be in a scream off with the winner of the other team to see which group would eat first after our hike.
On the hike we saw some of the plants the indians used for medicine and for tea. We also saw the beautiful plains all around us. It was a lot of fun and really cool. When we got back we had the scream off and unfortunately Crisanto lost. It was ok though because we still got to eat we just had to wait a little time. The buffalo stew was really good and it tasted just like pot roast.
Then we went back up to the harbour and had a mini powwow. The indians and peole from their community did dances for us. It was interesting seeing how different each dance was from each other. After they danced the other group did this snake thing and then we all did the rouund dance. It was actually fun because this we walk in circl come to the middle and yell and then everyon shakes hand in a long line. After when we got back down the hill we could see the rain in the distance. One of the girls did a thunder dance and told us a story. I was scared that I would get struck by lightning. Then it started rainning harder and harder. We all ran into our teepees to stay dry. Once the rain stopped we came back out to the fire and the 2 delegations had their meetings. Then we went to bed.