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some behind the scenes photos of blackfoot skies makoiyohsokoyi presented by telus spark + limelight multimedia.

this short film is an adaptation of an original siksikaitsitapi story gifted to telus sparks in the early 1990’s by the late dan weasel moccasin. it is an adaptation of a blackfoot story about the wolf trail, or milky way in the english language. it tells of a time, many moons ago when humans were starving, and it was the wolf ancestors that guided humans back to a life within the circle, to live in reciprocity with the land and animals. the stories originated in the blackfoot language and were told for hundreds of years by the niitsitapi. dan weasel moccasin alongside elders and knowledge keepers from the blackfoot community helped create a planetarium film that was shown in 1992. makoiyohsokoyi: the wolf trail, was inspired from those gifted stories. through the elders advisory circle at spark, the idea was introduced to create a short film of one of the stories, to be shared in teaching settings throughout treaty 7 in a portable dome theatre.