Lethbridge Gallery Given Blackfoot Name

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Celebration at Southern Alberta Art Gallery Naming Ceremony

The Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge has a new name  – Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin – granted in a Blackfoot naming ceremony led by Kainai elders Bruce Wolf Child and Mary Fox, an education, language and cultural consultant.

Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin connects the Blackfoot words: maan, it is new; siksikaitsitapii, of our Blackfoot people, and tsinikssin, relating stories through the process of images and writings.

"We are committed to our journey of living into this name," the gallery said in a statement.

Local Kainai artist Bryce Singer has been commissioned to create a limited series of  prints to commemorate the new name.

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Bryce Singer, "Niipáítapiiyssin (Life)," 2019

mixed media, limited edition print

The gallery is located on Treaty 7, as well as Métis Region 3, the traditional territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy, a historical collective of the four bands that make up the Blackfoot or Blackfeet people: Siksika (Blackfoot), Kainai (Blood), Northern Piegan (Piikani), and Southern Piegan (Blackfeet, Montana). 

Source: Southern Alberta Art Gallery