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  HighBeam Encyclopedia - Blackfoot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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.
With the early coming of the white man, the Blackfoot gained wealth from the sale of beaver pelts, but the killing off of the buffalo and the near exhaustion of fur stocks brought them to near starvation.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/blackfoo.asp   (447 words)

  
 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.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02590d.htm   (1127 words)

  
 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.
Blackfoot Language and the Blackfoot Indian Tribe (Siksika, Pikuni, Piegan, Kainai, Blackfeet)
www.archaeolink.com /blackfoot_indians.htm   (982 words)

  
 Native Americans: Blackfoot History and Culture (Blackfeet Indians)
As a complement to our Blackfoot language information, we would like to share our collection of indexed links about the Blackfoot people and various aspects of their society.
Blackfoot history is interesting and important, but the Blackfoot are still here today, too, and we try to feature modern writers as well as traditional folklore, contemporary artwork as well as archaeology exhibits, and the issues and struggles of today as well as the tragedies of yesterday.
Blackfoot Indian interactions with the Lewis and Clark expedition.
www.native-languages.org /blackfoot_culture.htm   (449 words)

  
 85search - J Blackfoot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Slump block and debris slide on the Blackfoot River, Montana, U.S.A., Landslide News, June 2000.
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J Blackfoot was the lead singer of the Soul Children, the Memphis-based group that scored 15 RandB hits between 1968 and 1978.
www.85search.com /J.Blackfoot   (346 words)

  
 Links to Information on Specific North American Indian Tribes Sites by Phil Konstantin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Ak-chin Indian community consists of both Tohono O’odham (Papago) and Pima Indians, is in the northwestern part of Pinal County.
Caddo Indians Caddo Indians in Montgomery County, AR
Chicora Indian Tribe of South Carolina "The Reclamation of A Native Tribe"
www.americanindian.net /links12.html   (5258 words)

  
 Links and References
Hellson, J.C. and Gadd, M. Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians, National
Johnston, A. "Blackfoot Indian Utilization of the Flora of the Northwestern
Among the Indians of Colombia, Temple Univ. Press, Philadelphia, 1975.
manu.montana.com /links.html   (2206 words)

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