“Niitstitapi” (The Real People) journeys across the vast ancestral territory of The Blackfoot Confederacy – an ancient alliance of Blackfoot speaking people bound together by land, language, and culture.
Tyson Running Wolf
Tyson Running Wolf (Blackfeet Nation) is the co-founder of the non profit Blackfeet Eco Knowledge, a member of the sacred Horns Society, and cultural knowledge keeper. He is a Montana State Representative from the 16th district including Browning and Cut Bank, Montana.
Lona Running Wolf
Lona Running Wolf (Blackfeet, Haida, Little Shell Cree) is the co-founder of the non-profit Blackfeet Eco Knowledge, an educator and advocate for Native American students and the power of cultural revitalization.
Rose Fox
Rose Fox (Kainai Nation) is the leader of the Mototiks sacred society, a knowledge keeper, and fluent Blackfoot speaker. Rose is a Blackfoot youth advocate and active in the Kainai High School as an elder and mentor.
Jonathon Red Gun
Jonathon Red Gun (Siksika) is the disability employment coordinator for Community Futures Treaty Seven. Mr. Red Gun has facilitated a number of workshops in the wellness stream, specifically, for those who are impacted by the Residential School legacy, and its intergenerational trauma. He now continues to use his wellness training, social work and judicial background to advocate for First Nations persons with a disability.
The Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy) is composed of the Kainai (Blood), Piikani (Piegan), Siksika (Blackfoot), and Amskapii Piikuni (Blackfeet) Nations. Since time immemorial, the Siksikaitsitapi people have lived in a territory that stretches from the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta and Saskatchewan to the Yellowstone River in the state of Montana, from the Continental Divide in the west to the Great Sand Hills in the province now known as Saskatchewan. The settler colonial imposed reserves in Canada and U.S. total nearly 1 million hectares but represent a small fraction of the land in which Blackfoot culture, language, and livelihoods have historically been rooted.
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