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Blackfeet

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Black·foot  (blkft)
n. pl. Blackfoot or Black·feet (-ft)
1.
a. A Native American confederacy located on the northern Great Plains, composed of the Blackfoot, Blood, and Piegan tribes. Traditional Blackfoot life was based on nomadic buffalo hunting.
b. A member of this confederacy.
2.
a. The northernmost tribe of the Blackfoot confederacy, inhabiting central Alberta.
b. A member of this tribe.
3. The Algonquian language of the Blackfoot, Blood, and Piegan.
4. See Sihasapa.
[Translation of Blackfoot siksiká (perhaps from the blackening of their moccasins, either from painting them or from walking near prairie fires) : sik, black + ika, foot.]
Blackfoot adj.


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