Lily Gladstone’s Historic Golden Globe Speech Sends Searches For Blackfeet Language Skyrocketing

Looper researched Google search trends in the last 24 hours and discovered how much of an impact Lily Gladstone had on the search engine. The phrase «What is Blackfeet language» saw a 3100% increase in search volume, while the search for «Blackfoot language» increased by 3,450%. Searches for «Lily Gladstone language» shot up 5,000%, while searches for «Black feet language,» «What is black feet language,» and «Blackfeet» went up 2,600%, 1,000%, and 1,650%, respectively. 

People also searched for «Black feet meaning,» «Black foot tribe,» and «Blackfoot Indian» (the latter uses an outdated nomenclature for Indigenous people), with the first two queries rising by 300% and the last rising 200%.

These searches may have been related to the closed captioning provided for the telecast on streaming. As Teen Vogue pointed out, the captions referred to Gladstone’s words as «a global language» — as opposed to recognizing its North American roots to the Algonquian language family.