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Iron Shield Collective - Indigenous Storytelling

We are an Indigenous woman-owned and veteran-owned business

Let us guide you to a deep understanding of your soul through Indigenous cultural workshop hike adventures. Hear our story, history, culture, and way of knowing while out on the homelands of the Amskapi Pikuni (Blackfeet Nation people) near Glacier National Park.

We offer full and half day land-based workshop hikes. Learn from our Indigenous story guides the history, stories, and language while on the original homeland of the Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot). While connecting to the natural world write and/or visually tell your own story through our adventure hikes.

Cultural Hike General Agenda

  • Introduction: open invocation in our tribal traditional way, story guides and guests swap greetings and backgrounds

  • Group starts the hike in solitude, time for meditation, and reflection

  • Group stops for indigenous storytelling, historical knowledge of the landscape and bonus workshop. (Q and A)

    • Themes are as follows:

      • History of landscape territories, historical account stories, and traditional knowledge

      • Treaties and history before Montana

      • Storytelling and how it connects us

      • Indigenous oral traditional stories and songs

      • Indigenous songs that connect us to the natural world around us

      • Indigenous dances and songs

      • Survival skills from Native military veteran guides and old tribal war stories and songs

      • Indigenous language and it's meaning in our world around us and identity

      • Indigenous Led Conservation

      • Plant identification and plant medicines

      • Climate change efforts in Indian Country

      • Traditional societies ceremonial protocol

      • Indigenous war stories and survival skills

      • Visual storytelling with smartphone/camera

      • Writing your story, essay memoir style, journalism writing

  • Restart hike: reflection and connection.

  • Return our hike toward vehicles with an additional stop for traditional stories and interchange reflection (Q and A)

  • A "See you on the trails" wrap up.

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