Wayne Provost - Our Stories Matter

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Our Stories Matter
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Summary: 
Sharing our voices and truths; Survivors of residential school and their families who want to digitize their story, history, knowledge, teachings, memories, genealogy, resilience, traditions and healing.
Description: 

Wayne Provost, Piikani Nation, shares his story growing up in both worlds and his identity as Nittsitapi, the connection to the land and Blackfoot ways of knowing.  

Location: 
Location Description: 

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Alberta. Treaty 7 territory. 

Protocol: 
Piitoyiss Indigenous Services Team
Community: 
Lethbridge Public Library
Collection: 
Our Stories Matter
Category: 
Kinship and Family Histories, Language, Culture and Worldviews, History and Resistance, People and Personal Stories, Place, Land and Territory
Media Type(s): 
Audio, Image
Keywords: 
Grandparents, Elders, Connecting to the land, Relationship to the land, Traditional Ceremonies, Catholic Church, Education, Employment, Connection, Identity, Niitsitapi, Blackfoot, Piikani
Creator(s): 
Wayne Provost, Marilyn Contois
Contributor(s): 
Lethbridge Public Library, Marilyn Contois
Date: 
2022 July
Language(s): 
English, Blackfoot
Rights: 
Wayne Provost
Licensing Options: 
Creative Commons License

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Publisher: 
Lethbridge Public Library, Marilyn Contois