We highlight the significance of process, event, and context of human practice in Indigenous Creation traditions to integrate Blackfoot “Napi” origin stories with environmental, geological, and archaeological information pertaining to the peopling of the Northwestern Plains, where the northern Rocky Mountain Front may have played a prominent role. First, we discuss the potential and limitations of origin stories generally, and Napi stories specifically, for complementing the fragmentary records of early human presence in the Blackfoot homeland. Second, we demonstrate the intimate connection among processes, events, place-making practices, and stories. Last, we aim to expand multivocality in the interpretation of the deep past through an archaeological practice that considers Indigenous philosophies and stories to be as valid as non-Indigenous ones.

我们强调了土著创造传统中人类实践的过程、事件和背景的重要性，将黑脚“纳皮”起源故事与与西北平原人民有关的环境、地质和考古信息相结合，北部落基山脉前线可能发挥了突出的作用。首先，我们一般讨论起源故事的潜力和局限性，特别是纳皮故事，以补充黑脚家园早期人类存在的零碎记录。其次，我们展示了过程、事件、场所营造实践和故事之间的密切联系。最后，我们的目标是通过考古实践扩大对深刻过去的解释的多元性，该实践认为土著哲学和故事与非土著哲学和故事一样有效。