Blackfoot

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.

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[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.]

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Blackfoot adj.

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Blackfoot [ˈblækˌfʊt]

n

1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -feet, -foot a member of a warlike group of North American Indian peoples formerly living in the northwestern Plains

2. (Linguistics / Languages) any of the languages of these peoples, belonging to the Algonquian family

[translation of Blackfoot Siksika]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Blackfoot - a member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains Algonquian, Algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian - a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America
	2.	Blackfoot - any of the Algonquian languages spoken by the Blackfoot Algonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains