Checking out the Neighborhood

As I mentioned before, Indian Days are going on in Browning this week, so we decided to go to the parade in the morning. Some of the Indian tribal wear was just so beautiful.

It seemed a little bit strange that some of the Indians would ride on top of a car instead of horses, but I guess these are changing times.

After the parade we went on to see Many Glaciers, which is at east end on the park. I have to admit that I still have problems identifying what is a glacier and what is snow from the last winter. I guess it will be gone around 2020 anyway, and that is one of the reasons why we wanted to come here now. Most of the glaciers in this part of the park are really only visible by hiking, however, we were able to see some of them and have a nice lunch at the lodge.


In the evening we went back to Browning to check out the Pow Wow. It was a somewhat strange experience. I suppose if we would know about the Indian customs, some of it would have made more sense. In one tent were what looked like four groups of Indians playing drums and chanting at various times and other people were passing something we could not identify. At seven o'clock the big Pow Wow started with all the different families coming into a big meeting area; first the chiefs, then the young men, followed by the women and in the end the children in all their tribal wear, dancing to tribal music. It was just amazing.


All in all it was a very interesting day. Tomorrow, we will move on towards Mount Rushmore, SD.