500 years ago. A big ceremony where gifts are given to family and guests to show the status of the family and support for the boy. Modern day, Blackfoot Tepee. Manitou Stone Sacred to the aboriginal people of central Alberta. Also known as the Iron Creek meteorite.
Native Peoples believe it to be placed on a hill by the great spirit.
Shamans prophecized doom. In 1869, war broke out between the Plains Cree and Blackfoot where 400 were killed. In 1877, conservation measures were passed, but the plains buffalo were gone. There were 40 million buffalo in the 1830s. This was the end of the Plains Native's way of life.