ABSTRACT
In Chapter 1, I suggested that the medicine bundles of Native North Americans are things which, from European and Euro-American perspectives, are usually considered mere objects, devoid of personhood. I also suggested, though, that from indigenous perspectives, medicine bundles are often viewed as intentional, living beings. The Blackfoot Peoples view their medicine bundles in just this way. They understand the bundles to participate willfully and socially in their world. As intentional, social actors, the bundles are persons.
