{"id":43050,"count":1,"description":"The Blackfoot Confederacy or Niits\u00edtapi (meaning \"original people\"; c.f. Ojibwe: Anishinaabeg and Quinnipiac: Eansketambawg) is the collective name of three First Nations in Alberta and one Native American tribe in Montana.\nThe Blackfoot Confederacy consists of the North Peigan (Aap\u00e1tohsipik\u00e1ni), the Piegan Blackfeet or South Piegan (Aamssk\u00e1\u00e1pipikani), the Kainai Nation (K\u00e1\u00ednaa: \"Blood\"), and the Siksika Nation (\"Blackfoot\") or more correctly Siksik\u00e1wa (\"Blackfoot people\"). The South Peigan are located in Montana, and the other three are located in Alberta. Together they call themselves the Niits\u00edtapi (the \"Original People\"). These groups shared a common language of the Algonquian family, as well as a common culture. They also had treaties of mutual defense, and members of the groups freely intermarried.\nThe independent and very successful warriors had a territory that stretched from the North Saskatchewan River along what is now Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada, to the Yellowstone River...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/blackfoot\/","name":"Blackfoot","slug":"blackfoot","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/43050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=43050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}