Kinship, Family and the Giveaway; Social Status and the Coups System; Beading; Powwow; Lodges (Tipi); Hand Game; Medicine (Acquisition and Application); Individual Ceremonialism (Fasting, Sweat, Sundance, the Pipe, Healing); The Wheel and its implications; The Apsáalooke Crow and the Plains
Readings:
Oswalt 2006: 202-238 or 2009: 200-236
Frey 2017: "Tipi" pp. 211-214 (review), "Prayer for a Son" pp. 19-22 (review), "Representation Lodge" (Sundance) pp. 136-155, "Fellow Sufferer" pp. 227-245, "the trail ends" pp 246-253
Crow Kinship and Qepsí incorrect, bad behavior "evil"
Map of Plain's Peoples
Lecture Handouts and Supplementals:
Crow Fasting, Crow Vision, Crow Sundance, Medicine Wheel and Song (from Shoshone Sundance) and the entire sequence "Younger Brother and Elder Brother" : the Sweat Lodge and Sundance (photo images)
Tipi Photo Gallery; printable enlargements of Crow Style Tipi and Blackfoot Style Tipi
Grand Entry; Crow Old Style Dance; Women's Double Beat; Drum
Handgame instructions; Song; Crow; Kiowa and Crows; Black Lodge (Crow) and N. Cheyenne
Arrow Throw and the Little Ones
Video:
Counting Coups (9 min., the modern day example of Joe Medicine Crow, a segment from the Ken Burns' 2007 documentary on World War II, "The War," takes place in 1944 France.)
Handgame (65 min., a 2000 Larry Johnson film)
Sundance Way (57 min., as told by Tom Yellowtail, a 2007 film)
Vision Quest (4 min., as told by Tom Yellowtail, a 2007 film)
Circle of the Sun (29 min., this classic 1960 film tells the story of the Blood Sundance through the eyes of Pete Standing Alone.
Standing Alone (57 min., this 1982 film chronicles a 25-year period in the life of Pete Standing Alone, from his oil-rig and rodeo rider days, to his the present day attempts are preserving his Blood traditions and spiritual ways.