Modern use of #BlackfooySyllabics

However the newspaper here has stopped using the syllabic translation in their headers

There's also a documentary about a racial motivated murder that uses Syllabics spelling of the victim's Surname

#BlackfootLanguage #Siksika #Kainai #Pikuni #Syllabics #ᓱᖽᐧᖿ

Boys Traditional at the Kainai Pow-Wow & Celebration 🧡🙌🏽 #BloodTribe #Kainai

On June 12 #Kainai First Nation in S #Alberta, near Lethbridge, filed a lawsuit challenging the decision to lift the moratorium on coal mining.

This is a significant.

IMHO coal mining the Eastern Slopes is blatant violation of #Canada’s Bill C-61 (First Nation’s Clean Water Act).

#abpoli #ableg

Prime Minister Carney announces Canada’s G7 priorities ahead of the Leaders’ Summit Fifty years ago, in the face of upheaval and geopolitical tensions, a small group of advanced economies formed what is now the G7 – a forum for co-operation, stability, and shared prosperity.

“This year’s Leaders’ Summit in #Kananaskis, Alberta, will take place on the traditional territory of the #BlackfootConfederacyNations of the #Kainai, #Piikani, & #Siksika, & the #StoneyNakodaNations comprised of the #Bearspaw, #Chiniki, & #Goodstoney #FirstNations, & the #Tsuut’ina #FirstNation.

My Nation! A’ho! 🪶🙌🏽🇨🇦 #Kainai #Treaty7

Close-up of bison (buffalo) face with detail on eye and fur.

Heya, folks!

Registration for the 11th Annual #Kainai Ecosystem Protection Association Summit is now open 🦅

This inspiring summit is an opportunity to learn from #Niitsítapi (#Blackfoot) leaders in the environment who are advancing #IndigenousLed conservation across #Alberta 🌱

Stunning new piece of #publcart among all the new construction at Standoff, on the #Kainai First Nation.

Monuments like this one are a way a community expresses their shared history and values….

And I’m a big fan! 😉

Monumentum: Latin for something that serves to remind us of who we are.