BLACKFEET RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS. The name Niitsitapiiksi, referring to the Blackfoot Native American people, means "Real People," as in honest, good, true beings. This is the general collective term that encompasses the different divisions...

The Piegan Blackfeet (Aamsskáápipikani (Southern Pikáni/Piegan) or simply as Pikáni in Blackfoot) are a tribe of Native Americans based in Montana. Many members of the tribe currently live as part of the Blackfeet Nation in northwestern Montana,...

THE PIIKANI BLACKFEET A Culture under Siege John C. Jackson Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, Montana, 2000. Illustrations, maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. xi + 276 pp. $30.00 cloth, $18.00 paper. The Piikani Blackfeet traces the declining fortunes of the Blackfeet (also...

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Go to Montana's Glacier National Park and you'll want to drive the scenic, winding Going-to-the-Sun Road or hike its ice-sculpted peaks and alpine valleys. But for a different experience, some visitors are booking tours that view the...

The Interior Department is doing all it can to account for billions of dollars owed to Indian landholders, a department official told a federal court Wednesday in legal arguments over the Indians' 11-year-old lawsuit against the government.The suit claims the government has mismanaged more than...