Editing Blackfoot Confederacy (section)

==== Traditional culture ====
[[File:Blackfoot gathering in 1973.JPG|thumb|Blackfoot gathering, [[Alberta]]. 1973]]

[[File:Chief Mountain snow.jpg|thumb|[[Chief Mountain]] is sacred to the Blackfoot. The mountain marks the boundary between the Blackfoot reservation in Montana and Glacier National Park.]]
The Blackfoot continue many cultural traditions of the past and hope to extend their ancestors' traditions to their children. They want to teach their children the Pikuni language as well as other traditional knowledge. In the early 20th century, a white woman named [[Frances Densmore]] helped the Blackfoot record their language. During the 1950s and 1960s, few Blackfoot spoke the Pikuni language. In order to save their language, the Blackfoot Council asked elders who still knew the language to teach it. The elders had agreed and succeeded in reviving the language, so today the children can learn Pikuni at school or at home. In 1994, the Blackfoot Council accepted Pikuni as the official language.<ref name="Gibson, 35-42" />

The people have revived the Black Lodge Society, responsible for protecting songs and dances of the Blackfoot.<ref name="Gibson, 35-42" /> They continue to announce the coming of spring by opening five medicine bundles, one at every sound of thunder during the spring.<ref name="Gibson, 35-42" /> One of the biggest celebrations is called the North American Indian Days. Lasting four days, it is held during the second week of July in Browning. Lastly, the Sun Dance, which was illegal from the 1890s–1934, has been practiced again for years. While it was illegal, the Blackfoot held it in secret. {{Citation needed|date=November 2009}} Since 1934, they have practised it every summer. The event lasts eight days – time filled with prayers, dancing, singing, and offerings to honor the Creator. It provides an opportunity for the Blackfoot to get together and share views and ideas with each other, while celebrating their culture's most sacred ceremonies.<ref name="Gibson, 35-42" />

The Blackfeet Nation in Montana have a blue tribal flag. The flag shows a ceremonial lance or coup stick with 29 feathers. The center of the flag contains a ring of 32 white and black [[eagle]] feathers. Within the ring is an outline map of the Blackfoot Reservation. Within the map is depicted a warrior's headdress and the words "Blackfeet Nation" and "Pikuni" (the name of the tribe in the [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian]] native tongue of the Blackfoot).<ref name="Gibson, 35-42" />