#siksikaitsitapi

[doubtspirit]

Map of North America before Columbus and colonization

[carbombrenee]

Estipah-skikikini-kots

[oldshowbiz]

August 1975 - Jonathan Winters with the chairman of the Blackfeet Tribal Council, Earl Old Person. 

Winters was in Montana to raise money for a new Siksikaitsitapil school in the Blackfeet Nation.

[jadeseadragon]

F. Winold Reiss (German-born American, 1886 - 1953), The Drummers - Glacier National Park, 1933.

Winold Reiss was born in Karlsruhe, Germany. "In 1913 he immigrated to the United States, where he was able to follow his interest in Native Americans. In 1920 he went West for the first time, working for a lengthy period on the Blackfeet Reservation. Over the years Reiss painted more than 250 works depicting Native Americans. His paintings became known more widely in the 1940s and 1950s, when the Great Northern Railway used lithograph reproductions of the Blackfeet especially for its calendars." [Wikipedia]

"Niitsitapi or Siksikaitsitapi (meaning "the people" or "Blackfoot-speaking real people") is a historic collective name for the four bands that make up the Blackfoot or Blackfeet people: three First Nation band governments in the provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia, and one federally recognized Native American tribe in Montana, United States. The Siksika ("Blackfoot"), the Kainai or Kainah ("Blood"), and the Northern Piegan or Peigan or Piikani ("Apa’tosee" or "Poor Robes") reside in Canada; the Southern Piegan/Piegan Blackfeet ("Amskapi Piikani" or Pikuni) are located in the United States, where they are also known as the Blackfeet Nation. In modern use, the term is sometimes used only for the three First Nations in Canada." [Wikipedia]