Watch the recorded premiere of the micro-documentary and the follow-up discussion featuring Lona Running Wolf and Wendy Bremner from 4 Poles Education Consulting Group, Deb Everhart from Credential Engine, and Jenny Harms and Elizabeth Dove from Accelerate Montana as they explore the work, impact, and what’s next.
About the Film
Blackfeet Living Principles as Open Data, is a short documentary about how the Blackfeet Nation is reclaiming cultural identity by recognizing cultural identity as valued job skills. The project, led by Accelerate Montana and supported by SkillsFWD, Credential Engine, and Gates Foundation, defined nine living principles-values that will be published to a credential registry to connect culture and employment systems.
Community voices from Wendy Bremner, Lona Running Wolf, Leo Bird, and Dana Pemberton remind us that these principles are more than words, they are stories, philosophies, and ways of life that shape meaningful work.
Voices From The Project
Wendy Bremner - 4 Poles Educational Consulting Group
“We have stories that hold our whole culture… documented through oral history. They carry all of these principles within them. When we say something like ikakimat ‘trying hard’ we’re not just giving a definition. We're invoking a full story, a whole philosophy.”
Lona Running Wolf - 4 Poles Educational Consulting Group
"Embodying these living principles in the workplace creates a better environment where they can thrive."
Leo Bird - Blackfeet Educator
"The principles we are looking at are the values we are looking at are a way for us to help people develop their purpose in life."
Dana Pemberton - Personnel Director
Blackfeet Tribe
"This is an attempt to get back to where we were as a people and make the whole workplace environment a better place to be."
