Sundance

Sacred Ceremony

Mr. Gentry's acceptance by the Blackfoot of Browning, Montana, was such that in 1988 the tribe's vice chairman invited him to be the official sketch artist for a four-day powwow that would recreate tribal life in the 1950's.  A 12-hour sacred Pipe Society ceremony was included in the powwow, something to which the white man was rarely, if ever, invited.  Though he was half Cherokee, the Blackfoot still considered him to be a white man, so this invitation was particularly impressive.