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
The Blackfoot genomes “didn’t seem to statistically fall within the same lineages that you had previously seen in the Americas.”
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
On the site in Blackfoot, he dreamed up strange tasks for me to do, as if he thought my doing them would remind me who I was.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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
Gladstone, who is of Blackfeet and Nez Perce heritage, made Oscar history earlier this year as the first Native American to be nominated for lead actress for her performance in “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024
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 was born on the Blackfeet reservation in Montana and moved to the Mountlake Terrace area with her family at the age of 11, has been acting for much of her life.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
“I harvested these huckleberries myself, straight from Blackfeet Country.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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