Nationality and ethnicity are both very important to most people. To me, my nationality means more then my ethnicity. Nationality is the country you live in, and to me being able to say I live in America means more then saying that I'm Canadian, Russian, German, and things like that. My ethnicity is important, but if it really was that important I'd still be living in Canada or whatever, but my grandparents knew that America had more opurtunities and was better then where they grew up.
From this story I get the feeling that nationality doesn't really mean as much as ethnicity to Blackfoot people. I think this because above all, the lady says she is Blackfoot. Not American and not Canadian, but Blackfoot Indian. This makes sense to me because there were Blackfoot Indians before there were Canadians and Americans. She doesn't back down either, which makes me think she's very prideful.
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