Blood Tribe aims to preserve Blackfoot language through new sign project
BLOOD TRIBE, AB – A First Nation is southern Alberta has launched a new initiative aimed at preserving the Blackfoot language.
The Blood Tribe said it, along with its partners, will provide matching funding to successful applicants to install signs in communities, businesses, institutions, and more that feature its traditional language.
“The goal is to provide a proof of concept and proof of demand for the installation of such signage across southwestern Alberta as a pilot for continued investment in this space,” reads a statement from the Blood Tribe.
According to the First Nation, projects like this are important because “The Blackfoot language was historically a spoken language without its own form of writing. However, after contact with European settlers and colonizers, the nations of the Confederacy began to create a system of writing for their language using adopted characters from the latin alphabet.”
