BLACKFOOT LANGUAGE 

The Blackfoot continue many cultural traditions of the past and hope to extend their ancestors traditions to their children. They would like to teach their children the Pikuni language as well as other traditional knowledge. In the early 1900s, a white woman named Frances Densmore helped the Blackfoot record their language. During the 1950s and 1960s very few Blackfoot spoke the Pikuni language. In order to save their language, the Blackfoot Council asked for help from the elders who still knew the language if they would teach it. The elders had agreed and succeeded in reviving the language, so now the children of today can learn Pikuni at school or at home. In 1994, the Blackfoot Council accepted Pikuni as the official language.