LibGuides: Native American Studies: Blackfoot Reservation

Search Terms

The Blackfoot Reservation is home to the Blackfoot tribe. When searching for books about the tribe, try using these different search terms:

Blackfeet
Niitsitapi
Pikuni
Piegan Blackfeet or Piegan
Blackfoot Nation
Blackfeet Reservation or Blackfeet Indian Reservation

Some Titles from the Collection

Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet by Rosalyn R. LaPier
Call Number: E99.P58L345 2017

Publication Date: 2017

Blackfoot history of the “invisible reality” of the supernatural world told through family stories, traditional knowledge, and personal reflections.
Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians by Clark Wissler
Call Number: E99.S54W525 2007

Publication Date: 2007

Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians introduces such figures as Old Man, Scar-Face, Blood-Clot, and the Seven Brothers. Included are tales with ritualistic origins emphasizing the prototypical Beaver-Medicine and the roles played by Elk-Woman and Otter-Woman, as well as a presentation of Star Myths, which reveal the astronomical knowledge of the Blackfoot Indians.
Siksikaitsitapi by Payne Many Guns; Crystal Many Fingers; Sheena Potts; Latasha Calf Robe; Tim Fox; Marlene Yellow Horn; DerRic Starlight
Call Number: JUV E99.S54S55 2022

ISBN: 1988824834

Publication Date: 2022

This book is a collection of stories and pictures by Blackfoot authors and artists in both English and Blackfoot.
The Sun God's Children by James Willard Schultz
Call Number: E99.S54S33 2010

ISBN: 1606390228

Publication Date: 2010

The Sun God’s Children describes the Blackfeet as they lived before the coming of the fur traders and their customs, traditions, and religious beliefs, as told to Schultz by the Blackfeet themselves.
Visiting with the Ancestors by Laura Peers; Alison K. Brown
Call Number: Ebook Central Academic Complete

Publication Date: 2016

In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. This volume demonstrates that the emotional and spiritual power of objects does not vanish with the death of those who created them.

Author Spotlight

Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author of some thirty novels and collections, and there’s some novellas and comic books in there as well. Most recent are Earthdivers and I Was a Teenage Slashe. Up before too long are (the third) True Believers, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, and Killer on the Road. Stephen lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado. He is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana.