But today there's a resurgence of interest in Blackfoot culture and history, in the language itself, that's revitalizing the tribes. |
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In other words, I spoke broken English and broken Blackfoot and I still speak that way. |
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She explains that when she tries to speak Blackfoot with her grandchildren, they look at her as though she's speaking Borg. |
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Two elders from the Blackfoot community will be working with museum presenters at the launch of the exhibition on Thursday. |
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There are Masses in Cree, Chipweyan, Blackfoot and Dene as well as English. |
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He was Canada's first Native senator and gave part of his first speech in the senate in Blackfoot. |
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I know quite well when I was young I spoke both Blackfoot and English fluently. |
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The Blackfoot became respected as an aggressive military force, attacking and destroying several trading posts in their territory. |
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He said one of the most memorable couples he had married were Native Americans, a Blackfoot groom and a Cherokee bride. |
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The Blackfoot Indians' Algonquian dialect is related to the languages of several Plains, Eastern Woodlands, and Great Lake region tribes. |
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Traditionally, the Blackfoot made their clothing from the hides of buffalo, deer, elk, and antelope. |
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These groups included the Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Crow, Kiowa, Pawnee and the Sioux Nations. |
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Each Blackfoot reservation is governed by a general council headed by a single chairman. |
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Domesticated dogs carried Blackfoot belongings by pulling a loaded travois consisting of two long poles attached to the dog's sides. |
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In addition, Montagnais, Chilcotin and Blackfoot versions are in the process of being produced. |
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Thus, just as I would if I were to use the Blackfoot language, I have attempted to present nationalism as genderless within its own context. |
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Professor Little Bear is a member of the Small Robes Band of the Blood Indian Tribe of the Blackfoot Confederacy. |
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Occasionally, unit grain trains are run from the grain elevators in Blackfoot and Idaho Falls, but you would have to find the right time to catch them. |
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The soldiers in 2nd Platoon, Blackfoot Company discovered his rifle, helmet, body armor and web gear in a neat stack. |
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It is more peaceful than the Blackfoot and runs in sight of the mountain peaks where there is always snow. |
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In 1880 Cree chief Big Bear worked for an Indian confederacy and found an ally in Crowfoot, leading chief of the Blackfoot. |
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A group of young Blackfoot teens roll a webbed hoop across a field, trying to throw long wooden lances through the target as it speeds away. |
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The groups hiked down to Blackfoot to tie clove hitches, half hitches, square knots, fisherman knots, and sheet bends, then walked a course with the Patrol tied together. |
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Nevermind, for the driving fun, no problem at all: the King Blackfoot is great. |
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The Blackfoot used the tent poles to make travois that horses could pull to transport their belongings. |
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So important was it that some native groups, such as the Blackfoot and the Crow, cultivated no other crop. |
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I also want to recognize that he travelled many miles last Friday to join me in the wonderful announcement at the Blackfoot Crossing. |
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The day began with an opening ceremony including a traditional opening by a Blackfoot Elder. |
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Ladies and gentlemen, firstly like to say what a pleasure it is to be here on the traditional territory of the Blackfoot nations. |
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We would like to thank the Government of Canada for their contribution in Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park. |
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Crowfoot was born in southern Alberta around 1830, and in 1870 became one of the head chiefs of the Blackfoot Confederacy. |
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You can learn about traditional beliefs and ceremonies, hear stories from the ancestors and find out what impact Europeans had on Blackfoot society. |
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The four most important Blackfoot ceremonies were obtained through women. |
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He also delivered the first Parliament speech in the Blackfoot language. |
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It is in this context that the strong sense of nationalism I see as being inherent in Blackfoot culture becomes explicit, that is, noticeable from the outside. |
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Over these short six years of whisky trade with the Blackfoot in southern Alberta, an estimated 150,000 buffalo robes went south to Fort Benton, Montana. |
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They had to snuff out threatened uprisings, prevent the invaders from persuading the Canadian Indians to join them in fighting the whites, and preserve the Blackfoot hunting grounds from the Sioux. |
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Chief Crowfoot of the powerful Blackfoot Confederacy, a significant figure in Canadian history, was the great friend of the North West Mounted Police. |
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I would encourage any hon. members who are within travelling distance or when they are in Calgary to visit the Blackfoot Crossing on the Siksika Nation. |
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Smith explains how Sylvester Clark, a man of mixed black, Lumbee, Cherokee, and white ancestry created a persona as the son of a Blackfoot Chief. |
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When the young reporter explains the well is on Blackfoot Indian land, the businessmen steal the land from the Indians. European snobbery about money permeates the books. |
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On the 5th July, 1932, treaty was paid to the Blackfoot band in the Sun Dance Camp. |
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So I say, why can we not discuss the interests of the original nations: the Nehiyawuk, the Oneida, the Mohawk, the Okanagan, the Tlingit, the Tlicho, the Blackfoot, the Lakota, the Mi'kmaw, the Innu. |
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Four Cree Language and Culture programs of study and a locally-developed Blackfoot Studies Program have been developed along with teaching and learning resources and authorized for use in Alberta schools. |
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Blackfoot Indians used fresh berries in soups, stews, and pemmican. |
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The Arapaho, Atsina, Blackfoot, Mandan, and Hidatsa ranked their military societies in a series of age sets, groups of individuals of a similar age who functioned as a cohort. |
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Many Indians who lived in villages and practiced agriculture became dedicated nomads, including the Crow Sioux, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Comanche, Arapaho, and Kiowa. |
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His research interests have led him to the exploration of North American Indian science and western physics as well as in learning more about Blackfoot knowledge through songs, stories and landscape. |
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Among the first Algonquian-language speakers to move westward from timberland to open grassland, the Blackfoot probably migrated on foot using wooden travois drawn by dogs to transport their goods. |
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Today, we have been instructed to offer by auction a native North American Blackfoot tribe squaw's beadwork costume piece. |
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Sheltered from the prairie sun by an awning, the Governor General's entourage seems unperturbed as the Blackfoot leader holds out an empty tin cup to symbolize the destitution of his people. |
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The realm of the Plains Amerindians began west of Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, where Ojibwas and Plains Cree eventually gave way to Assiniboines, Gros-Ventres, Blackfoot and Sarcees stretching all the way to the Rocky Mountains. |
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Written text of Treaty No. 7 showing marks of Crowfoot and others of the Blackfoot nation, as well as the signatures of the Commissioners and witnesses. |
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One year later, Treaty 7 with the Blackfoot Confederacy opened up large tracts of prairie, and the federal government could move ahead with plans for settlement and development. |
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The project has also enabled higher learning with the Blackfoot, where members of the research team have undertaken intensive high-level training as part of their engagement in the knowledge disciplines. |
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The improved profile of the Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park is expected to strengthen the local economy by increasing the number of visitors and creating more business opportunities in the area. |
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The Piikani, Blood and Blackfoot became the principal customers at Rocky, preferring not to visit other posts in the region where they faced the prospect of confronting their rivals, the Cree and Assiniboine. |
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Blackfoot Crossing, the historic site of the signing of Treaty No.7, is a designated National Heritage Site and is a recommended World Heritage Site. |
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