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Entering the reservation on U.S. Route 2. The Blackfeet Nation (Blackfoot: Aamsskáápipikani, Pikuni), officially named the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana, [4] is a federally recognized tribe of Siksikaitsitapi people with an Indian reservation in Montana.
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] At the time, only about one-fifth of the Blackfeet tribal members were considered full-blooded, and the tribe, like many others, was viewed as a candidate for termination. [10]
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 ...
The Blackfeet had controlled large portions of Alberta and Montana. Today the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana is the size of Delaware, and the three Blackfoot reserves in Alberta have a much smaller area. [3] The Blackfeet hold belief "in a sacred force that permeates all things, represented symbolically by the sun whose light sustains all ...
In 1851 he became a special agent for government negotiations with the Plains Indians, and played a significant role negotiating the Treaty of Fort Laramie. [10] Later he and his wife persuaded the Blackfoot Confederacy to let the northern Pacific railroad survey of 1853, under Isaac I. Stevens, continue unharmed. [11]
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.
Mountain Chief (Nínaiistáko / Ninna-stako [1] in the Blackfoot language; c. 1848 – February 2, 1942) was a South Piegan warrior of the Blackfoot Tribe. [2] Mountain Chief was also called Big Brave (Omach-katsi) and adopted the name Frank Mountain Chief. [2]
After the elder White Calf died in 1903, while a guest of President T. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., White Calf became the last chief of the Blackfoot Tribe. [2] He died at Blackfeet Indian hospital, of attack of flu according to the Choteau Acantha, however the Indian agency said pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 63 and is buried in a ...