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Medicine pipe-stem dance, Blackfoot. The Blackfoot Confederacy is a historic collective name for the four bands that make up the Blackfoot or Blackfeet people three First Nation band governments in the provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia, and one federally recognized Native American tribe in Montana, United States. A ceremonial pipe is a type of smoking pipe, used by a number of Native American cultures in their sacred ceremonies. Traditionally they are used to offer prayers in a religious ceremony, to make a ceremonial commitment, or to seal a covenant or treaty. Some ceremonial pipes are adorned with feathers, fur, animal or human hair, beadwork, quills, carvings or other items having significance for the owner. Other pipes are very simple. Many are not kept by an individual, but are instead held collectively by a medicine society or similar indigenous ceremonial organization. There is no single word for all ceremonial pipes across the hundreds of diverse Native...