As many Native American cultures, values are a foundation to their tribe, in regards to the Blackfoot tribe, key cultural values and …show more content…
The Blackfoot language is essentially composed of timeless verbs usually in present tense (Briggeman "Keeping a Language Alive"). The use of timeless verbs is also used to bring objects to life, in the Blackfoot language “everything you see, everything you look at, everything you sense is described via the language as an action. State of being and state of action, nothing is stationary, nothing is inanimate, nothing is dead but everything is alive” (Brown "Revitalizing the Blackfeet Language in Montana"). The making of everything animate aspect of the Blackfoot language is by far the most important, it is the way history and culture is kept within their language. Another aspect of the Blackfoot language is how relatively hard it is to translate their language into English for every phrase in Blackfoot is more or less a description of something, not just a single word, for example moose translates to “dark moving into the brush” (Briggeman "Keeping a Language Alive"). As you can see the translation also uses the timeless verbs as mentioned