Blackfoot
noun
a member of a North American tribe of Indians of Algonquian stock.
Blackfeet
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pluralof Blackfoot.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In 1895, facing starvation, the Blackfeet people reluctantly sold 800,000 acres to the U.S. government with the understanding that they would retain rights to hunt, fish and gather on the land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
The researchers also isolated DNA from the remains of four ancestors with the Blackfeet Tribal Historic Preservation Office as well as three ancestors held by the Smithsonian Institution.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024
Gladstone, who is of Siksikaitsitapii/Nimíipuu heritage, was born in Montana and grew up on the Blackfeet reservation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
In the summer of 1939, Ruth Benedict, another anthropologist who was a key mentor and longtime lover of Mead’s, was living among the Blackfeet people in Montana, and Mead was pregnant in New York City.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2024
“I harvested these huckleberries myself, straight from Blackfeet Country.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
