ABSTRACT
In the short quotation above, John Murray points to the importance that “medicine bundles” have for him and his fellow traditionalists among the Blackfoot Peoples of North America. Murray’s quotation explains why many Blackfoot individuals have sought the repatriation of bundles that have been appropriated from them and that now reside in museums and private collections. Murray, a former “medicine bundle keeper,” and other traditionalists understand that their bundles, which are at the very center of their indigenous culture’s ceremonial life, are intricately tied to a traditional “system of value.”1
