Fire Bear
Wahanksica petal

Ready to Hunt

“I just love, like, nature, like I think I said this before, but I don’t really like the city outdoors, like I love the survival building, like fishing, all that survival stuff.”

Lifted to Greatness

“It looks really hard to make one, right? It just amazed me how, it was all made piece by piece. It started with 2 poles. It takes so many people to build one teepee.”

Teamwork makes things happen

“I was always a bit with my culture. I was kind of into it, I went to Pow Wow but not really cultural stuff every week. But since we joined the men’s group, yeah, I’m really into my culture, and I’m glad that I got a drum.”

Boys with Braids

“Fire Bear/wahanksica petal was super, super proud of this picture and the shirt because of the way his braid was. He said it’s the same thickness and the same length of that one. So he’s like, 'mom, dad, this shirt was modeled after me!' So he was really proud." (Man walks beside sacred elk/hehaka wakan isakeb mani wacasta)

Connecting to Culture through Drum Making