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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 ...
[7] [8] Blackfoot language has been declining in the number of native speakers and is classified as either a threatened or endangered language, depending on the source used. [9] Like the other Algonquian languages, Blackfoot is considered to be a polysynthetic language due to its large morpheme inventory and word internal complexity. [10]
An old she-wolf with a sky-blue mane named Ashina found the baby and nursed him, then the she-wolf gave birth to half-wolf, half-human cubs, from whom the Turkic people were born. Also in Turkic mythology it is believed that a gray wolf showed the Turks the way out of their legendary homeland Ergenekon , which allowed them to spread and conquer ...
Since 1973, the gray wolf has been on and off the federal government's endangered species list. When the wolves are on the list, advocates say the protections help wolves' place in the natural ...
Blackfoot: Apistotookii: Creator [1] Napi: Trickster [1] Haida: Ta'xet: God of violent death [2] Tia: Goddess of peaceful death [2] Ho-Chunk: Red Horn 'He Who Wears (Human) Faces on His Ears' Hopi: Aholi: A kachina: Angwusnasomtaka: Crow Mother, a kachina: Kokopelli: Fertility, flute player, a kachina: Kokyangwuti: Creation, Spider grandmother ...
Watch Lily Gladstone's Golden Globes acceptance speech, starting with a few sentences in her native Blackfeet's language here.
Sinopah was born in the Montana Territory and was part of the Blackfeet Confederacy.Her father was Pikuni Chief Lone Walker (Ni-to-wa-wa-ka). In 1820 she married Hugh "Rising Wolf" Monroe, a white trapper and interpreter who became part of the Blackfeet tribe.
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]