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  • noun Plural form of Blackfoot.

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Examples

  • It is uncertain whether all three tribes used to know it, but have forgotten it, or whether it has been learned in comparatively modern times by the Blackfeet from the Crees, with whom they have always had more frequent intercourse and a closer connection than the other two tribes.

    Blackfoot Lodge Tales George Bird Grinnell 1893

  • West as is now the word Blackfeet to the mountaineer, have entirely disappeared, leaving scarce

    A JOURNEY TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN 1839 1839

  • Crow, Flathead, Kutenai -- for the Blackfeet were a particularly warlike and aggressive people, and, with the exception of the two small tribes living under their protection, they had no allies.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • In their culture the Blackfeet were a typical Plains tribe, living in skin tipis, roving from place to place without permanent habitation, without pottery, basketry, or canoes, having no agriculture except for the planting of a native tobacco, and depending almost entirely upon the buffalo for subsistence.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • As the Blackfeet were a constant menace to other Indians for whom De

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • The Blackfeet were a race of meat-eaters, and, while they killed large quantities of other game, they still depended for subsistence on the buffalo.

    Blackfoot Lodge Tales George Bird Grinnell 1893

  • After they reached the plains, the main food of the Blackfeet was the buffalo, which they killed in large numbers when everything went right.

    Blackfeet Indian Stories George Bird Grinnell 1893

  • It is true that the Crees call the Blackfeet women "Little Slaves."

    Blackfoot Lodge Tales George Bird Grinnell 1893

  • The Blackfeet were the tribe most dreaded in the Rocky Mountains, and went by the name of "Bugs Boys," which rendered into good English, meant "the devil's own."

    The River of the West 1870

  • The Indians called Blackfeet and those called Crows were at war; They stole each other's horses at every chance, and the Indians of each tribe were always seeking to kill those of the other.

    Stories of American Life and Adventure Edward Eggleston 1869

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