'Transitions of the Blackfeet Tribe'

'Before interacting with the Europeans, the Blackfeet Indians were a peaceful, free-roaming kindred. They lived off the impart by catch and gathering their nutrient; elk, deer, bison, berries, root, and early(a) animals and vegetation. Obviously, for berries and roots they would necessitate to go disclose and displume them; however, coming upon bison and other wild animals was a disparate story. They had to have a rattling well planed out strategy that could efficaciously kill bison. If they did non they would be mauled. They utilize spears and bows and arrows before guns were introduced to their culture. Blackfeet breathing were sacred and they believed that the fair weather was an exponentially almighty being. Men and women would stake on mountain quests to find themselves and went through and through ceremonies of sacred bundles to sustain the blessing and shield of the powerful madam and animal hard drink and through ghostly guidance from medication men a nd women. \nThe insolate Dance last happened as a summer ordinance that brought together different and independent bands. To the Blackfeet a smoking shriek was considered a religious rite and sacred ceremony. The pipe ups were incessantly specially decorated, they were each carved with designs or had porcupine sweet calamus work. Pipe rituals were so common that both Blackfoot family had a pipe in their possession. It brought a sense of consonance to the tribe and was genuinely important to their apparitional beliefs. Life was wide and then they were introduced to the discolor man.\nIn 1806, the Lewis and Clark shipment went right through the Blackfoot territory. This resulted in midweekly attacks on expeditionists. The Blackfoot gained a grimacing composition for hostility and hostility because of their impedance to the oncoming of skin trappers in their territory. This reputation had negative violation on the tribe because of the rumors that spread most the wh ites. However, they remained on good terms with the Hudsons verbalise Company. The Blackfeet were encouraged to lot at the...'