Blackfoot Subdivisions and Blackfeet Bands
The Siksika are divided into the following subtribes: The Siksika or Blackfeet proper, occupying the northern part of the above territory; the Kainah or Bloods south of the preceding, and the Piegan, south of the Kainah, the one best represented in the United States.
The Siksika, as the Blackfoot Indians call themselves, were one of the largest and most warlike tribes of the northern Plains. The Blackfeet Nation is divided into the subdivisions described above. Each of these Blackfoot divisions is further subdivided into bands.
Siksika bands:
Aisikstukiks
Apikaiyiks
Emitahpahksaiyiks
Motahtosiks
Puhksinahmahyiks
Saiyiks
Siksinokaks
Tsiniktsistsoyiks
Kainah or Blood bands:
Ahkaiksumiks
Ahkaipokaks
Ahkotashiks
Ahkwonistsists
Anepo
Apikaiyiks
Aputosikainah
Inuhksoyistamiks
Isisokasimiks
Istsikainah
Mameoya
Nitikskiks
Saksinahmahyiks
Siksahpuniks
Siksinokaks
Piegan bands:
Ahahpitape
Ahkaiyikokakiniks
Apikaiyiks
Esksinaitupiks
Inuksikahkopwaiks
Inuksiks
Ipoksimaiks
Kahmitaiks
Kiyis
Kutaiimiks
Kutaisotsiman
Miahwahpitsiks
Miawkinaiyiks
Mokumiks
Motahtosiks
Motwainaiks
Nitakoskitsipupiks
Nitawyiks
Nitikskiks
Nitotsiksisstaniks
Sikokitsimiks
Sikopoksimaiks
Sikutsipumaiks
Susksoyiks (Hayden, 1862)
Tsiniksistsoyiks
Sarcee or Sarsi bands:
Bloods, Klowanga or Big Plume's band, of mixed Sarcee and Blood (Blackfoot) descent.
Broad Grass, Tents Cut Down, or Crow-Child's band, mixed Cree and Sarcee, hence their name, signifying that they came from the north where the grass is thick and long.
People who hold aloof or Crow-Chief's band, nearly all pure Sarcee.
Uterus or Old Sarcee's band, part Blackfoot, part Sarcee.
Young Buffalo Robe or Many Horses' band, occasionally called also "Those who keep together."
Nitsitapii - Siksika - Kainai - Bloods - Pikuni - Piegans - Saxsiiwak
