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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.
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 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 .
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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]
William Francis "Chief" Carlson (Eseen Amakan) (November 17, 1959 - October 25, 2003) was a Native American, a member of the Blackfeet Nation, a U.S. military veteran, and a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) paramilitary officer who died in Shkin, Paktika Province, Afghanistan, on October 25, 2003, during a counterterrorism operation.
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.
Tom Rodgers (born July 28, 1960) is a Native American activist and advocate for tribal issues. Based in Washington, D.C., Rodgers is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana, where translated from the Siksiká language he is called "One who Rides his Horse East."