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The Blackfoot used these to expand their territory at the expense of neighboring tribes. Today, three Blackfoot First Nation band governments (the Siksika, Kainai, and Piikani Nations) reside in the Canadian province of Alberta, while the Blackfeet Nation is a federally recognized Native American tribe of Southern Piikani in Montana, United States.
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.
The Sihásapa or Blackfoot Sioux are a division of the Lakota people, Titonwan, or Teton. Sihásapa is the Lakota word for "Blackfoot", whereas Siksiká has the same meaning in the Nitsitapi language , and, together with the Kainah and the Piikani forms the Nitsitapi Confederacy .
The Siksika Nation (Blackfoot: Siksiká; syllabics ᓱᖽᐧᖿ) is a First Nation in southern Alberta, Canada.The name Siksiká comes from the Blackfoot words sik (black) and iká (foot), with a connector s between the two words.
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 things".
Stand Off community at night. Kainai Nation. Kainai Nation entry sign. The Kainai Nation (Blackfoot: ᖿᖱᖻᖳ, romanized: Káínaa or ᖿᖱᖻᖷ, romanized: Káínawa, Blood Tribe) is a First Nations band government in southern Alberta, Canada, with a population of 12,965 members in 2024, [3] up from 11,791 in December 2013.
However, 220 Peigans were massacred by the US Army in 1870 and American authorities pressured the Blackfoot to give up more and more lands to settlers (69,000 km 2 or 17 million acres were ceded in 1887 [2]), leading some Peigans to relocate to Canada and sign Treaty 7 with the Canadian government in 1877.
Treaty 7 is an agreement between the Crown and several, mainly Blackfoot, First Nation band governments in what is today the southern portion of Alberta. The idea of developing treaties for Blackfoot lands was brought to Blackfoot chief Crowfoot by John McDougall in 1875. [1] It was concluded on September 22 and December 4, 1877. [2]