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The Blackfoot Confederacy, Niitsitapi, or Siksikaitsitapi [1] (ᖹᐟᒧᐧᒣᑯ, meaning "the people" or "Blackfoot-speaking real people" [a]), is a historic collective name for linguistically related groups that make up the Blackfoot or Blackfeet people: the Siksika ("Blackfoot"), the Kainai or Blood ("Many Chiefs"), and two sections of the Peigan or Piikani ("Splotchy Robe") – the ...
Blackfeet Indian Reservation, looking at the mountains of Glacier National Park. The 2010 census reported a population of 10,405 living on the reservation lands. [8] The population density is 3.47 people per square mile (1.34 people/km 2). The Blackfeet Nation has 16,500 enrolled members.
Earl Old Person at Montana ExpoPark in 2018, wearing the traditional headdress granted to him many years earlier when he was inducted into the Kainai Chieftainship. [9]In 1950, Old Person got a job in the tribe's land office, where one of his jobs was to be an interpreter for Blackfeet people who did not understand or speak English. [7]
Termaine Edmo, Environmental Advisor to the Blackfeet Nation, explains how their sustainable snow fence works behind Browning High School in Browning, Mont., on October 20, 2023.
She was also known as "Brown Weasel Woman." She was born into the Piikáni Piegan Tribe of the Blackfeet Nation. [6] Running Eagle had three younger sisters and two brothers. [7] As a child, she preferred to play with boys rather than girls, and at age 12, she began to wear boys' clothing.
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Gladstone, an Indigenous actor who was born and raised on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, has won several other awards for her role as Mollie Burkhart in "Killers of the Flower Moon ...
The Blackfoot First Nations were told of a medicine stone by the Snake First Nations, who inhabited the Montana area at the time. Years later, a Blackfoot tribe gathered a group of men and headed off to find the stone. When they found it, they were laughed at by their leader, who said it was a child's story and rolled the stone down the hill. [1]