Blackfoot
1 Americannoun
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a member of a North American tribe of Indians of Algonquian stock.
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the Algonquian language of the Blackfeet.
adjective
noun
noun
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a member of a group of Native American peoples formerly living in the northwestern Plains
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any of the languages of these peoples, belonging to the Algonquian family
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Blackfoot
First recorded in 1785–95; translation of Blackfoot siksíka
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In his latest book, “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,” a Blackfoot vampire who is murdered during the Marias Massacre of 1870 returns; 2016’s “Mongrels” is a coming-of-age-meets-werewolf story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
Blackfoot nations have taken legal actions to try to protect or win them back.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024
"I said, 'Hello, my friends. My name is Eagle woman. It's a name I was given when I was 16. I come from the Blackfoot speaking people from the Blackfeet Nation'."
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2024
Norman Maclean, in his story “A River Runs Through It,” emphasizes that the “Big Blackfoot River,” which enters the Clark Fork, “was manufactured by glaciers.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
In 1781 a company of Blackfoot stumbled across a Shoshone camp at dawn near the Red Deer River in Alberta.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
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
Born on Montana’s Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Gladstone has worn tennis shoes, scuffed boots and fur-trimmed moccasins for publicity appearances, often with another accessory or pattern that recalls her Siksikaitsitapi and Nez Perce heritage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
“I harvested these huckleberries myself, straight from Blackfeet Country.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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