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== Terminology == The ''Piegan'' (also known as the Pikuni, Piikuni, Pikani, and Piikáni) are one of the three original tribes of the [[Blackfeet Confederacy]] (a "tribe" here refers to an ethnic or cultural group with a shared name and identity). The Piegan are closely related to the [[Kainai Nation]] (also known as the "Blood Tribe"), and the [[Siksika Nation]] (also called the "Blackfeet Nation"); together they are sometimes collectively referred to as "the Blackfoot" or "the [[Blackfoot Confederacy]]". Ethnographic literature most commonly uses "Blackfeet people", and Canadian Blackfeet people use the singular Blackfeet. The tribal governments and the US government use the term "Blackfeet", as in [[Blackfeet Nation]], as used on their official tribe website. The term {{lang|bla|ᓱᖽᐧᖿ}} ''Siksika'', derived from {{lang|bla|ᓱᖽᐧᖿᖱᖾᖳᐡ}} ''Siksikáíkoan'' (a Blackfeet person), may also be used as self-identification. In English, an individual may say, "I am Blackfeet" or "I am a member of the Blackfeet tribe."<ref name="Nettl, 1989">{{cite book|last=Nettl|first=Bruno|author-link=Bruno Nettl|title=Blackfeet musical thought: comparative perspectives|url=https://archive.org/details/blackfootmusical0000nett|url-access=registration|year=1989|publisher=Kent State University Press|isbn=978-0-87338-370-7}}</ref> Traditionally, Plains peoples were divided into "bands": groups of families who migrated together for hunting and defence. The bands of the Piegan, as given by Grinnell, are: Ahahpitape, Ahkaiyikokakiniks, Kiyis, Sikutsipmaiks, Sikopoksimaiks, Tsiniksistsoyiks, Kutaiimiks, Ipoksimaiks, Silkokitsimiks, Nitawyiks, Apikaiviks, Miahwahpitsiks, Nitakoskitsipupiks, Nitikskiks, Inuksiks, Miawkinaiyiks, Esksinaitupiks, Inuksikahkopwaiks, Kahmitaiks, Kutaisotsiman, Nitotsiksisstaniks, Motwainaiks, Mokumiks, and Motahtosiks. Hayden gives also Susksoyiks.<ref>{{cite book|last=Swanton|first=John R.|author-link=John R. Swanton|title=The Indian Tribes of North America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xpx6WoPz7xIC&pg=PA396|year=1952|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|isbn=978-0-8063-1730-4|page=396}}</ref>
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