As a member of the Algonquian language family, the #Blackfoot are related to other Algonquian speaking tribes whom ethnologists believe migrated onto the plains from the eastern woodlands several centuries before contact with whites
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The 1930s brought federal works programs. Many #Blackfoot took part in the Works Progress Administration projects and the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Catholicism was a major religion among the #Blackfoot through the twentieth century. Catholic Jesuits, or "Black Robes," were the first Christian missionaries to reach the #Blackfoot bands
An animal's power or the power of a natural element would frequently be bestowed upon a #Blackfoot individual in a dream. The animal, often appearing in human form, provided the dreamer with a list of the objects, songs, and rituals necessary to use this power
the #Blackfoot won two substantial monetary judgements from the United States.
The record above shows that the #StandUpHeaddress you see here was sold by R.N Wilson, a #CanadiangovernmentIndianAgent, to a curator at the Field Museum in 1905. Wilson likely confiscated items belonging to our Societies at our #SunDance, when all of the #Blackfoot Societies came together to have their ceremony. He sold many of our sacred items to museums
The record above shows that the #StandUpHeaddress you see here was sold by R.N Wilson, a #CanadiangovernmentIndianAgent, to a curator at the Field Museum in 1905. Wilson likely confiscated items belonging to our Societies at our #SunDance, when all of the #Blackfoot Societies came together to
The #Blackfoot Sun Dance was a major annual dance ceremony involving the construction of a special circular lodge
The #Blackfoot traditionally relied on the buffalo for food, clothing, shelter, and much of their domestic and military equipment
The #Blackfoot supplemented their diet with berries and other foods gathered from the plains. Women gathered roots, prairie turnips, bitterroot, and camas bulbs in the early summer
The #Blackfoot used two types of drums. For the Sun Dance, a section of tree trunk with skin stretched over both ends was traditionally used. The other type of percussion instrument was like a tambourine with hide stretched over a broad wooden hoop
The #Blackfoot have always been concerned with their traditional land, recognizing it as sacred and important to their survival
The #Blackfoot avoid eating fish or using canoes, because they believe that rivers and lakes hold special power through habitation of Underwater People called the Suyitapis.
The #Blackfoot Nation is actually a confederation of several distinct tribes, including the South Piegan (or Pikuni), the Blood (or Kainai), the North Piegan, and the North #Blackfoot (or Siksika)
The #Blackfoot reigned over the northern Plains region of southern Alberta and northern Montana into the mid-nineteenth century. By 1896, however, only 1,400 #Blackfoot lived in Montana
The #Blackfoot believe spirits to be an active and vital of everyday life
The #Blackfoot Sun Dance involved men fasting and praying, and dancing from the wall to a central pole and back inside the Sun Dance lodge
The Methodist Church arrived shortly after the Jesuits did, and they made their own inroads into #Blackfoot spiritual life
The #Blackfoot became respected as an aggressive military force, attacking and destroying several trading posts in their territory.
The #Blackfoot are also known as the Blackfeet. The Blood, Siksika, and Piegan freely intermarried, spoke a common language, shared the same cultural traits, and fought the same enemies.
The #Blackfoot believe the life of the land and their own lives were irrevocably bound
The #Blackfoot Nation traditionally occupied the northwest portion of the Great Plains from the northern Saskatchewan River, and southern Alberta, to the Yellowstone River in central Montana
The #Blackfoot #Indians' Algonquian dialect is related to the languages of several Plains, Eastern Woodlands, and Great Lake region tribes
Although Christianity maintains a presence in the #Blackfoot community, traditional religious practices involving medicine bundles, the Sun Dance, and sweat baths are still practiced.
The most powerful medicine bundle among the #Blackfoot was the beaver medicine bundle. this bundle was used by the Beaver Men to charm the buffalo, and to assist in the planting of the sacred tobacco used in the medicine pipe ritual performed after the first thunder was heard
Agent John Young, a Methodist minister, managed to get the Jesuits banned from the #Blackfoot reservation during the Starvation Winter of 1883-1884, but the Jesuits, led by Peter Prando, set up shop just across the reservation boundary on the south side of Birch #Creek
Government boarding schools focused on assimilating #Blackfoot children into American society, forbidding the practice of traditional customs, including native language.
After dying, #Blackfoot individuals were traditionally dressed in ceremonial clothes, their faces were painted, and they were wrapped in buffalo robes. The body was then buried atop a hill, down in a ravine, or placed between the forks of a tree
After acquiring horses and firearms around the middle of the eighteenth century, the #Blackfoot became the most powerful tribe of the Northern Plains.
Four reservations compose the #Blackfoot nation today. The only one in the United States, the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, borders the east boundary of Glacier National Park
