Niitsitapi

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Niitsitapi refers to the Blackfoot people, an Indigenous group of the North American Great Plains with a rich cultural, linguistic, and spiritual heritage.

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Label Occurrences
Niitsitapi canonical 2
Niitsi’powahsin 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf First Nations
Indigenous people
Native American people
Plains Indigenous people
alsoKnownAs Blackfoot
surface form: Blackfeet people

Blackfoot
surface form: Blackfoot people

Siksikaitsitapi
colonialImpact forced reservation life
residential schools
country Canada
United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalRegion Plains culture area
engagedIn cultural revitalization
language revitalization
governedBy tribal councils
hasArtForm beadwork
hide painting
quillwork
song and drumming
storytelling
hasSubgroup Blackfoot
surface form: Blackfeet Nation

Kainai Nation
Piikani Nation
Kainai Nation
surface form: Siksika Nation
languageFamily Algonquian languages
nameMeaning original people
real people
primaryLanguage Blackfoot language
relatedGroup other Algonquian-speaking peoples
socialOrganization band society
clan system
spiritualBelief reverence for the buffalo
sacred relationship with the land
spiritualPractice Sun Dance
bundle ceremonies
traditionalClothing buckskin garments
feather headdresses
traditionalEconomy bison hunting
trade
traditionalHousing tipi
traditionalLifestyle nomadic bison hunters
traditionalTerritory Great Plains
surface form: North American Great Plains

Saskatchewan
Montana Hi-Line
surface form: northern Montana

southern Alberta
traditionalTransport horse culture
treatyRelationship Treaty 7

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Blackfoot hasAlternativeName Niitsitapi
Blackfoot language nativeName Niitsitapi
this entity surface form: Niitsi’powahsin
Blackfoot language ethnicGroup Niitsitapi