The Blackfeet considered water to be a unique and sacred location. It was the dwelling place of divinities and heavenly animals who instructed the Blackfeet in religious practices and moral guidelines for conduct. The Old Testament's Mount Sinai, which was revered as "sacred ground" and the location of God gave Moses the Ten Commandments, can be compared to it.
Indigenous people all throughout the world have this view of water as having the right of Mother Earth to life.
The sacredness of water