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  HighBeam Encyclopedia - Blackfoot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
BLACKFOOT [Blackfoot] Native North Americans of the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages).
The Blackfoot were unremittingly hostile toward neighboring tribes and usually toward white men; intrusions upon Blackfoot lands were efficiently repelled.
Presently the Blackfoot are mainly ranchers and farmers living on reservations in Montana and Alberta.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/blackfoo.asp   (483 words)

  
 Blackfeet
The Piegan Blackfeet, (Pikuni in Blackfoot) are a tribe of Blackfoot Native Americans based in Montana.
The relations of the Blackfoot language to others in the Algonquian language family indicate that the Blackfoot lived in an area west of the Great Lakes.
The population was at times dramatically lower when the Blackfeet people suffered instances of disease, starvation, and war, such as the starvation year of 1882 when the last buffalo hunt failed or the smallpox epidemic of 1837 which killed 6,000.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/bl/blackfeet.html   (475 words)

  
 Confederacy
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 native american civilizations blackfoot indians
The nomadic Blackfoot Indians in particular were known for their great skills in hunting the enormous buffalo long before the first pyramids of Egypt were built.
It was after the introduction in 1730 of the animal named "elk-horse" for its great size that the Blackfoot tribes became renowned for their expert horsemanship and continued their dominance of neighboring Native American groups as they pushed westward toward the Rocky Mountains.
Many children are still learning Blackfoot, but the language is currently undergoing linguistic shift, with 'Old Blackfoot' being spoken by older generations and 'New Blackfoot' being spoken by younger ones." Learn more about the tribes making up the Blackfoot confederation including language history and more.
www.archaeolink.com /blackfoot_indians.htm   (982 words)

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