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
Etymology
Origin of Blackfoot
First recorded in 1785–95; translation of Blackfoot siksíka
Example Sentences
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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
Nations of the Blackfoot Confederacy have long fought to maintain control over their land and water.
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
The Blackfoot were a tightly organized confederation of groups that inhabited the plains between the Missouri and Saskatchewan Rivers.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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