Native American Quilt Store- Native Life Quilt Shop in Browning, Montana on Blackfeet Reservation

[Music] my name is lisa long time sleeping and wow we also sell um fabrics specifically for um traditional powwow dancing see i teach star quilt classio but i teach it in the oral tradition well and then the row by row is one thing that is really fun for the rvers and the travelers that come through this is called little berry woman hi i'm shalane this is dean and we are grassroots living the world in like action know sure and i've been out for a couple of weeks and it's like i come in and all our fabric is sold out oh nice it's like the worst time to do a video because i don't even have the fabric well you can tell us about right so if you're okay my name is lisa long time sleeping and this is native life in browning montana on the blackfeet reservation i noticed online when i was looking online and we were trying to choose a quilt shop in the area to to film yes we chose this one because of your fabrics uh-huh so can you tell us about what kind of fabrics you carry and why you carry those maybe show us a few sure um well right out here we sell um we specialize in native wildlife and western and so like these panels we're really excited to have uh just received those are our beautiful panels those are gorgeous aren't they gorgeous yes wow and the buffalo even and the buffalo panels yeah and we do also western and wildlife so we have like different horses and western type themes um as you know every shop has its own personality sure and so with our shop you'll get a lot of bright colors and western prints and mostly we usually have a very large stock of native prints in um and so by next week that'll be completely replenished but we can have a couple of big orders yeah and so yeah that's we um we also sell um fabrics specifically for um traditional um powwow dancing okay and do you have any of those here are you because you said you had a couple big orders so we had a couple big orders so actually we're kind of low on that too we will have more coming in um so we the bright colors actually go hand in hand with that shortly like a lot of bright colors and you'll see the shawls up there we have you know that kind of like fringe and different things for the do you mind if we just kind of no that's fine yeah did you make these um we do a lot of consignment with our um with our we have a quilting group and so we encourage our our quilters to you know just bring stuff in on consignment and we have a real low consignment fee so that they can you know have their work out there perfect you're so right though as we've walked around different um quilting stores around the country you are so right with the different personalities of the store okay that's for the dance regalia so um traditional dancing so that's um a faux wolfer okay and then this is um like a faux sheepskin so like the the traditional men might have welfare for in their outfits and like the fancy dancers they wear sheepskin around their ankles and so that's a faux sheepskin they can use as well okay yeah a lot of times for the kids you don't want to invest a huge amount of money because they're only going to wear it one yeah yeah they're gonna grow until they get older before you start actually buying you know the actual furs and whatnot and normally we have a minky uh because a lot of women will wear the mink um over their braids but we're out of that too so well the thing i love most about our shop is um see i teach star quilt classes and we do you know other classes as well and culturally we um have always come together and you know just gather to you know do our bead work and to sew and and it's always a community thing so with my star quilts i don't people will ask me if i have patterns you should make a pattern you should do a video but i teach it in the oral tradition okay and so that's the only way you can get the class and i have these techniques to make it so much easier and so if you take the class then you get the benefit of that but the best the thing you get is the coming together yeah and so a lot of people will take my classes again and again they don't need me anymore but it's just the coming together and sewing together so we have created just this amazing community of men and women that sew and will like lots of times especially for dance regalia i'll just if you need a lesson i'll just do it for free just because you know just people share the knowledge yeah and the classes you're talking about is it a like a one day class is it like a month situation no the star quilt class is usually they're a weekend we start at nine and we end at five we stay all day we bring food we just visit pretty low and it's very relaxed is it pretty much local people only or if like people were coming through like in their rv and found out about it oh yeah yeah anybody can i've had people come from washington i've had people from the surrounding communities come and you have good rv parking out here i noticed we do yeah people that travel yeah we do i every time i go into a quilt shop and i always say this people have heard this on our channel so many times i'm not a quilter oh okay but every time i go into a quilt shop i always want to be one oh that's so pretty oh you said this who did this um dorothy champion she just left she's a lady that was just leaving when you oh okay yeah so this is the star quilt dorothy we love your stars my son um was one of the first i have there's a few gentlemen that take my classes and that's so regular lee he took my class when he was about 11. and i thought oh my gosh he's going to last all of 10 minutes he was just bored he had he's always got to be doing something and he actually finished the entire star quilt and ended up winning an art contest with it wow amazing yeah oh and so you can do the whole thing here but because the whole thing yeah yeah because this this is a long arm right right okay so see still learning yeah well and then the row by row is one thing that is really fun for the rvers and the travelers that come through have you heard about that no okay so the row by row is united states and canada okay and every participating shop has to create a new row for the theme every year okay so um this was like 2018 this is the for her sister she dances and part of the proceeds for that go to the murder missing indigenous women this is called little berry woman and then this was last year's this is beautiful and what's this one called uh any buffalo rum where the buffalo room and this is this year's this is a splash of color so pretty and do you design these actually um my partner angela johnson she designed these yes she's awesome so when a customer comes in that is participating it's actually a contest but i find most people just like to collect them sure and so if you are participating in the contest the first one to finish a quilt with you know the different um rows that they've collected they they win a prize but most people just come in you can either just get the pattern or you can get the whole kit wow yeah and so it's it's great because we get to meet a lot more quilters yeah all over the place i just learned every time i go to a different shop i learn something new that's so fun so those are my traditional scarves that we wear for dance regalia or ceremony cool and we also sell beadwork and watson's all local websites we do have a website it's nativelifestore.com perfect and can they they can see your schedule like you said you have classes sometimes that's on there the the classes will be on there yes any event that we're having will be on the website perfect and they can order fabrics as well fabric yep perfect yeah if they have any questions they can call a lot of times i will have customers call and ask me different questions they have about the fabric and then we can either order over the phone or on the website i do have a lot of customers that are elderly customers that don't like websites so they'll just call me okay perfect so we should get can you give us your business phone number yeah the number they can call yes it's 406 338-7888 perfect and we'll put that in the description below as well we are open from nine to five monday through friday and saturdays we're open from 11 to 5. perfect well thank you so much for letting us just like drop in and surprise you and just say hey you're on candid camera what a sweet little shop bye [Music] oh [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 11min 10sec (670 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 23 2021