Tuesday in Browning

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

We left school early yesterday...it was 3:30. We were supposed to stay until five, but it was club day and our presence wasn't that pressing. We were pretty exhausted (read ME). So when we got home, Ann and I took a nap and the kids took a walk down to Two Medicine River.

Brother Paul cooked us dinner last night, spaghetti, salad and garlic bread with nutritious organic brownies for dessert. It was a good thing there were chocolate chips in the brownies because I don't eat desserts for their nutritional value!

Our speaker last night was Marty Martain, Sr., his Indian name is Beware of Sleeping Wolf. His great grandfather was Sleeping Wolf. His grandmothers were: Strikes Down, Good Cuts, Kills Inside and Takes Guns...four women I assume didn't sit around quilting! He spoke on the history of the Blackfeet Reservation. At one time the Blackfeet roamed from Canada to New Mexico, the Rockies to the Dakotas.

He began by blessing us before we handled all of the wonderful artifacts he shared with us. He had received many of the objects as a thank you for another blessing he had given. I have a lot of pictures, which I am having a bit of a problem uploading, but will keep trying.

Night Prayer was pretty mellow. We shared scripture and spent some time journaling. I think everyone went to sleep pretty quickly...at least I did!

It snowed enough yesterday to blanket the plains, but stopped by 10 pm last night and the stars were visible. The sun is out today and the "Big Sky" is a clear view. It was cloudy over the mountains as we left for school at 7:15 this morning, but the mountains were peeking out. It is supposed to be 40 degrees today, so that will melt the snow.

This morning we were all up by 6:30 and had breakfast, packed our lunch and did a quick morning prayer. Brother Ray said we were one of the few groups that have been ready on time. But it helped that we had to scrap the windows before we could leave.