Posted on 04/07/2024 6:33:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Nations of the Blackfoot Confederacy have long fought to maintain control over their land and water. Oral traditions and archaeological evidence indicate the Blackfoot Indigenous peoples and their ancestors have inhabited a broad swatch of North America more than 10,000 years.
A study published today in Science Advances reinforces that connection. Genetic data confirm modern Blackfoot people are closely related to those who lived on the land hundreds of years ago. The findings also suggest Blackfoot people descend from a previously unknown genetic lineage extending back roughly 18,000 years ago, when people first populated the Americas—evidence that could bolster their claims to their land and water rights...
Today, the Blackfoot Confederacy shoulders the U.S.-Canada border, comprising the Nations of Blackfeet, Kainai-Blood, Peigan-Piikani, and Siksika. Blackfoot people know that their ancestors, since time immemorial, have lived across the Rocky Mountains's eastern slopes and adjacent plains of what is now Montana, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. Indigenous oral traditions and archaeological evidence indicate that more than 10,000 years ago these ancestors pursued bison along valleys and lakes carved by glaciers as the last ice age ended.
But U.S. and Canadian governments and energy sector interests have repeatedly threatened these ancestral lands or stripped them away since the 1800s. Blackfoot nations have taken legal actions to try to protect or win them back.
A recent success came in 2023 when, after years of litigation, gas and oil company Solenex LLC relinquished its federal lease to drill in the Badger-Two Medicine area of Montana. Yet other disputes are ongoing in the courts.
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this article is breathless about insisting that the Blackfoot came from ancestors....JUST LIKE THE REST OF US...we all came from ancestors thousands of yrs ago....
The Indians were squatters...they never bought a damn thing. The world was based on conquering and occupying.
They all trace back to the legendary Black Foot, Two Dogs F***ing
True, or the Blackfoot didn't get as much $$$ from the Feds and/or the oil company. 🤓
Killer harp solo on the ‘Train Train’ intro ...
So, squatters moved in
My thought is that the White Squatters cannot be kicked out, suqatters’ rights, you know.
Including the US now. The White Foot people are being crowded out.
That’s back when bands actually played instruments.
The gene pool shrinks the further we go back...until therecis one male and one female?
The Blackfeet also have some Denisovan DNA, I believe.
Clovis may have originated in Europe - from spear point analysis comparisons.
“The community of Northminster Presbyterian Church recognizes and grieves for the deep injustices that we, as a community and as an institutional church have inflicted in the past and continue to inflict upon the Indigenous peoples dwelling on this land. As a first step, we wish to acknowledge that our church stands on unceded land and our debt with its original stewards.”
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“Same as all the other indians.”
Same as the Northern Europeans?
So one reads, but if you’re alive now, your ancestors lived through the Ice Age. Tautologically. Well, unless you’re a space alien. On the internet, nobody can tell.
Saxons, Goths, Visigoths, etc,
“Saxons, Goths, Visigoths, etc,”
Kindly, peaceful peoples.
It was a good run.
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