 Employment in the region is currently increasing at more than double the Canadian average.The Palliser Region is the traditional territory of the First Nations of the Blackfoot Confederacy – particularly the Siksika (also called Blackfoot), the Blood (or Kainai) and the Northern Peigan (or Aapátohsipikáni).The Gros Ventres also used the area until they relocated to a reservation in eastern Montana in 1861.