How might relationships between generations provide strength and support for both the grandparent and the grandchild?
Examining this doll, we see the care and attention to both detail and beauty. What would children learn about their identity from this doll?
Can you think of a significant toy from your childhood that helped you develop a sense of identity?
We often think of mothers and other female relatives as the primary caretakers of young children. What might you infer about family relationships from this photo of the man and young child?
What are the challenges to keeping the Crow language alive?
Why might the Crow Nation think it is important to keep their language and other cultural traditions alive?
It requires an enormous amount of work and commitment from parents to help their children become skilled in horsemanship. What does this work and commitment tell you about family relationships?
It requires an enormous amount of work and commitment from parents to help their children become skilled in horsemanship. What does this work and commitment tell you about family relationships?
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"Clan uncle? His responsibility is to help his clan nephew physically and spiritually, mostly spiritually—that he will live a long life. Be prosperous. Be a good warrior and have all the things that he needs to survive on this earth. And then he's a public relations man, too.
Whenever he [his clan nephew] does anything good, like go off to war, [the clan uncle] would come out and sing a praise song. His praise song announces what he did throughout the camp. Sometimes they would take them, adopt them personally. And be a part of their family. So, nobody, we didn't have any orphans in the old days."
Grant Bulltail, a Crow elder, explains the roles of a clan uncle.
How might a young boy benefit from the relationship he has with his clan uncle?
