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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Blackfoot Indians |
 | | As is usually the case with Indian etymologies, the origin of the name is disputed. |
 | | Their Indian work, at first confined to the Crees and Ojibwa, was afterwards extended, under the auspices of the Oblates, to the Blackfeet and Assiniboin. |
 | | Among the most noted of these Oblate missionaries were Father Albert Lacombe (1848-90), author of a manuscript Blackfoot dictionary, as well as of a monumental grammar and dictionary of the Cree, and Father Emile Legal (1881-90), author of several important manuscripts relating to the Blackfoot tribe and language. |
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