Blackfoot Confederacy

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 Northern Piikani (Aapátohsipikáni) and the Southern Piikani (Amskapi Piikani or Pikuni).[2] Broader definitions include groups such as the Tsúùtínà (Sarcee) and A'aninin (Gros Ventre) who spoke quite different languages but allied with or joined the Blackfoot Confederacy.

The Blackfoot Confederacy was a Military alliance originating in the Northeastern United States.

Membership

• Kainai Nation
• Piegan Blackfeet
• Piikani Nation
• Siksika Nation
• Official language Blackfoot language

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. Additionally, the Gros Ventre are members of the federally recognized Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana in the United States and the Tsuutʼina Nation is a First Nation band government in Alberta, Canada.

Please use Geni naming conventions - native Americans for Geni profiles.

Notable Blackfoot people

• Chief Crowfoot.
• Elouise Cobell, banker and activist who led the 20th-century lawsuit that forced the US Government to reform individual Indian trusts
• Byron Chief-Moon, performer and choreographer
• Crowfoot (ISAPO-MUXIKA – "Crow Indian's Big Foot", also known in French as Pied de Corbeau), Chief of the Big Pipes band (later renamed Moccasin band, a splinter band of the Biters band), Head Chief of the South Siksika, by 1870 one of three Head Chiefs of the Siksika or the Blackfoot proper
• Aatsista-Mahkan ("Running Rabbit", * about 1833 – d. January 1911), since 1871 Chief of the Biters band (Ai-sik'-stuk-iks) of the Siksika, signed Treaty No.7 in 1877, along with Crowfoot, Old Sun, Red Crow, and other leaders
• A-ca-oo-mah-ca-ye (Ac ko mok ki, Ak ko mock ki, A'kow-muk-ai – "Feathers", since he took the name Old Swan), since about 1820 Chief of the Old Feathers' band, his personal following was known as the Bad Guns band, consisted of about 400 persons, along with Old Sun and Three Suns (No-okskatos) one of three Head Chiefs of the Siksika
• Stu-mick-o-súcks ("Buffalo Bull's Back Fat"), Head Chief of the Kainai, had his portrait painted at Fort Union in 1832
• Faye HeavyShield, Kainai sculptor and installation artist
• Joe Hipp, Heavyweight boxer, the first Native American to compete for the WBA World Heavyweight Title.[72][failed verification]
• Beverly Hungry Wolf, author
• Stephen Graham Jones, author
• Earl Old Person (Cold Wind or Changing Home), Blackfoot tribal chairman from 1964-2008 and honorary lifetime chief of the Blackfoot
• Jerry Potts (1840–1896), (also known as Ky-yo-kosi – "Bear Child"), was a Canadian-American plainsman, buffalo hunter, horse trader, interpreter, and scout of Kainai-Scottish descent. He identified as Piegan and became a minor Kainai chief.
• Steve Reevis, actor who appeared in Fargo, Dances with Wolves, Last of the Dogmen, Comanche Moon and many other films and TV.[73][74]
• Misty Upham (1982-2014), actress[75]
• James Welch (1940–2003), Blackfoot-Gros Ventre author
• The Honourable Eugene Creighton, judge of the Provincial Court of Alberta.
• Gyasi Ross, author, attorney, musician and political activist.
• Lily Gladstone, actress, who is part Blackfoot and Nez Perce

  ---

References

1. Wikipedia contributors, "Blackfeet Nation," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, < link > accessed February 11, 2024).
2. Wikipedia contributors, "Blackfoot Confederacy," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, < link > (accessed February 11, 2024).
3. “Wandering Warriors: The History of the Blackfeet Tribe.” < link >
4. Blackfeet Reservation Timeline Blackfeet Tribe (2017) < PDF >