Allen Pard's presentation on The Blackfoot Shirt's Project: Reflections March 30, 2011

At the end of March 2011 Laura Peers and Alison Brown organized a conference relating to the 'Blackfoot Shirts Project'. This conference was to be a wrap-up to the project before the book comes out. Laura and Alison invited a group of U.K. curators from various museums and a delegation from the four Blackfoot Tribes to attend the conference. The museum representatives and Blackfoot delegates were brought together to exchange information and ideas. The majority of the conference has been video recorded for use by the Blackfoot Digital Library and for the Pitt Rivers Archives. The conference spanned two days, the thirtieth and thirty-first of March twenty eleven. The conference was held at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, England.

Allen Pard who was closely involved in the Blackfoot Shirts Project from the beginning speaks about his experience, protocol and mis-representation. Allen is one of only a small handful of men that have the rights to wear or make a shirt like the ones held in Pitt Rivers. Allen has revived ceremonies that were almost lost to the Blackfoot people and is one of the most knowledgable elders today.