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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blackfoot \Black"foot`\, a. Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian. -- n. A Blackfoot Indian.
Wiktionary
n. A member of this confederacy. n. 1 A Native American confederacy of several tribes. 2 The Algonquian language of these people.
WordNet
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Housing Units (2000): 3929
Land area (2000): 5.408660 sq. miles (14.008364 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.255463 sq. miles (0.661647 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.664123 sq. miles (14.670011 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07840
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 43.190068 N, 112.346037 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 83221
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Blackfoot
Wikipedia
Blackfoot is an American Southern rock musical ensemble from Jacksonville, Florida organized during 1970. Though they are primarily a Southern rock band, they are also known as a hard rock act. The band's classic lineup consisted of guitarist and vocalist Rickey Medlocke, guitarist Charlie Hargrett, bassist Greg T. Walker, and drummer Jakson Spires.
They have had a number of successful albums during the 1970s and early 1980s, including Strikes (1979), Tomcattin' (1980) and Marauder (1981).
Blackfoot or Blackfeet may refer to:
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Blackfoot Confederacy, a group of indigenous people in North America, or subgroups belonging to it:
- Northern Peigan
- Piegan Blackfeet, a Blackfoot tribe in northern Montana
- Siksika Nation belonging to the Nitsitapii
- Kainai Nation
- Sarcee people, close allies
- Gros Ventre people, members of the Blackfoot Confederacy for a time
- Blackfoot (Lakota) or Sihasapa, a branch of the Lakota people
- Pied-noir or Black-Foot, a member of the French citizens who lived in French Algeria
Blackfoot may also refer to:
- Blackfoot language, an Algonquian language
- Blackfoot (band), a rock band
- Blackfoot, Alberta, a hamlet in the western Canadian province
- Blackfoot, Idaho, a city in Idaho, U.S.
- Blackfoot, Texas, an unincorporated community in Anderson County, Texas
- Blackfoot Creek, a stream in South Dakota
- Blackfoot diatreme, a volcanic pipe in British Columbia, Canada
- Black foot disease of grapevine, a plant disease
- Blackstar, also known as Blackfoot, a character in the Warriors novel series
- Blackfoot, a common name for plants in the genus Melampodium
Usage examples of "blackfoot".
America: Aguaruna, Arawak, Blackfoot, Cherokee, Iroquois, Lengua, Mataco, Maya, Mexican and Yahgan.
The Algonkins surrounded them on every side, occupying the rest of the region mentioned and running westward to the base of the Rocky Mountains, where one of their famous bands, the Blackfeet, still hunts over the valley of the Saskatchewan.
There was also considerable movement: the Blackfoot and Cheyenne, for example, began as eastern seaboard Indians, members of the Algonquian family, before pushing west into the plains.
Bad stories came down about Blackfeet and Cree, Atsina and Crow and Nakodabi Assiniboin, becoming crazed on spirit water and hurting or killing each other.
Mandans and Manitaries have not, by any means, so many dogs as the Assiniboin, Crows, and Blackfeet.
He was later to learn that the fort, near the mouth of the Yellowstone River, had lost both horses and men to raiding Assiniboine and Blackfoot warriors.
Historically, the country beyond the upper Missouri was Blackfoot, but the reservation at Fort Belknap was Assiniboine and Gros Ventre, traditional enemies up until the late nineteenth century, when federal policy had settled the two tribes together.
Geronimo and Hickok were back to back, the Blackfoot holding gore-spattered tomahawks, the gunfighter a red-stained axe.
The Piegan and Blackfeet have a kinship, I believe, but I am not clear on just what the relationship is.
Cherokee alphabet, of the Mohawk, the Blackfoot, the Cree, the Lakota, the Potawatomi, and others.
Indians like the Crows, Blackfeet, the Utes, and the Shoshoni back when the Indian wars were at their worst.
While not as bloodthirsty as the widely feared Blackfeet, the Utes were a proud, independent tribe who fiercely prevented any attempts by outsiders to penetrate their domain, and they had been doing this for more years than anyone could remember.
Blackfoot selected a suitable length of straight limb, then chomped off the thin offshoots.
Geronimo, Blade waited until the Blackfoot had touched the torch to a candle and reignited the strips before he walked from the room without a backward glance, his friends right behind him.
French misreading of his third Jim Bridger book,Massacre Moon , in which several of his mountain man characters, including several impossibly benevolent French beaver trappers, sided with the Blackfeet to help the tribe avoid a massacre by encroaching federal troops.