Blackfoot Woman

When she was younger, she watched both of her parents be murdered by Native Americans.

Though Janice still lived on the property her Grandfather had owned, the house was in disrepair and not suitable for habitation. Mary, accompanied by Janice, entered the old home. The house was structurally unsound, so they carefully made their way into the attic. Mary located the trunk with Janice’s assistance. Once the trunk was located, Mary opened the trunk to find the notebook containing the “Bigfoot Dictionary.” This convinced Mary of the authenticity of the notebook, and that Janice was telling the truth about her experiences. Mary took the notebook. She researched the words and phrases contained in the notebook. Mary discovered that most of the words documented in the notebook were Cheyenne. There were also some Cherokee words.

In the book, The Good Braider, by Terry Farish, the reader follows the story of a young Sudanese girl who escapes from her war-ridden country and eventually comes to find a home in America. The story of Viola in this story is one that shows how the integration of fugitive people into American society today is still relative of the basic principles that were retained by many of the first settlers of this continent, especially those that pertain to aspects of adoption of an alternative environment, assimilation into a new culture, and the continuation of pre-existing ethnic traditions.

As a result of refusing to give her citizenship, the mother is stuck between the borders. The narrator observes how "I told Stella that we were Blackfoot and Canadian, but she said that didn't count because I was a minor. In the end, she told us that if my mother didn't;t declare her

Aboriginal persons in Canada have been facing oppression ever since colonization began. Even when Canada gained independence from the British Empire, the oppression continued and still goes on today. One major contributing factor to the oppression of Aboriginal people in Canada is the actions taken by the Government. The Government of Canada has in fact mistreated and found to be partaking in wrongdoing when dealing with the Aboriginal population in this country. With this ugly truth being revealed, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission had to be tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past. (cite)

After the strangling claws of the Indian Act were felt, the Canadian government began to issue more laws that intruded with the aboriginals lives and took away their rights. The first of these was the “Potlatch Law” (Hanson, n.p.). It banned potlatches and other ceremonies of the aboriginals, all for the purpose of forcing the

The Blackfoot People are one of the many Native American Indian tribes that roamed America in the early 1700s. Like many tribes they were nomadic hunters that lived in the Great Plains of Montana and the Canadian provinces of Alberta. The name is said to have come from the colour of the peoples shoes that were made of leather. They had typically dyed or painted the soles of their shoes black.

The mother and the son feel the limitations of citizenship as they struggle to cross the border. In the context of the story the term citizenship

I chose to write my research paper on the Blackfoot reservation which is home to the Blackfoot tribe. The Blackfoot tribe was sometimes known as the classic example of the Plains Indians. The Blackfoot reservation actually consists of four different tribes and those are the Blackfoot/Siksika, Blood/Kainai, Pikuni/Peigan, and North Peigan Pikuni tribes. The Blackfoot Indians initially migrated from the Great Lakes region and now live in Montana and some of Canada.

Many were forced to evacuate to other regions within the country and endure the infamous Trail of Tears. While Native Americans are not forcibly removed from their homes anymore, this story shows a modern-day example of mistreatment or borders that Native Americans deal with. While the mother faced many different conflicts, externally and internally, she readily accepts the challenge and is not willing to step down. She displays the pride of the Blackfoot Indians and is not willing to let the government tell her who she is and let them define her. She sets an example for Native Americans, standing up against a government that has held them down for so long. That they should always have pride in who they are, and where they came

Out of these immigrants who were held for further inspection, 9 out 100 of them were kept for a mental inspection. The immigrants were given tests to make sure they were mentally okay to go into America, they had 3 attempts to pass the test, if failed 3 times, the immigrant would be deported. One woman who was deported was asked the following question, "how many feet does a horse have". The woman was so confused by the question that she thought they were tricking her, and was deported for not being able to answer this question.

Soren C. Larson writes the second article, titled, Promoting Aboriginal Territoriality Through Interethnic Alliances: The Case of the Cheslatta T’en in Northern British Columbia. Larson worked for five years from 1998 to 2002 conducting ethnographic research on the Cheslatta T’en tribe in northern British Columbia. He conducted 82 formal interviews between himself and tribal as well as non-tribal members alike, as well as becoming integrated with the aboriginal

Across Canada and the United States there are many First Nations languages which are a part of the Algonquian language family, all of which with varying states of health. Although these languages share many characteristics of the Algonquian language family, the cultures, systems of beliefs, and geographic location of their respective Nations differentiate them. In being shaped by the landscape, cultures, and spirituality of the First Nations, the language brings the speakers closer to their land and traditions while reaffirming their identity as First Peoples. Using the Blackfoot Nation to further explore this concept, this paper will show that while language threads together First Nations culture, spirituality,

The mother carries her pride for her family, culture and her heritage. When Laetitia and her mother are saying their good byes at the border, her mother tries one last time to remind her about the reserve and how you would not need to go anywhere else when you have everything on the reserve but also the different languages that were spoken in this phrase. “You can still see the mountains from here”, my mother told Laetitia in Blackfoot. “Lots of mountains in Salt Lake,” Laetitia told her in English.” Here the mother is speaking in her native tongue, while Laetitia is just talking in English, another example of how the mother brings about her culture. The mother identifies herself as Blackfoot as she keeps going back and forth to the borders. She clearly refuses to adopt the nationality of either a Canadian or an American, rather claiming on her Blackfoot status as a person who belongs in both countries. The mother seems to defy the border officials also as a lesson to teach her son about her Blackfoot identity and values. Her son is the one who is travelling along with her and is also the main narrator in the story. During their ‘standoff’ periods in the nightfall of the story, the mother takes the time to tell him Blackfoot tales of the Coyotes as they study the patterns of the stars. (King, 144) The mother is a cautious story teller and after she is allowed to continue her

“Oh!” she said, clearly disappointed and expecting with my British accent that I must at least have lived next door to the Queen at one of her estates. We went on to briefly discuss what on earth I was doing in WA, well over three-thousand kilometers from “civilisation” (or the east coast and capital of this continent at any rate). However, the question prompted me to ask why it’s OK for me, as a caucasian, to casually waltz over the borders into Australia (and other territories) without so much