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Blackfoot

noun

(pl. Blackfeet, Blackfoot)

A member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains.

Any of the Algonquian languages spoken by the Blackfoot.

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"Blackfoot" Quotes from Famous Books

... second winter. In the early spring they commenced their return. When they arrived at the Falls of the Missouri they encountered a numerous band of Indians, very bold and daring, called the Blackfoot. These savages were astonished beyond measure, at the effect of the rifle which could emit thunder and lightning, and a deadly though invisible bolt. Some of the boldest endeavored to wrench the rifles from some of the Americans. ...

— Daniel Boone - The Pioneer of Kentucky • John S. C. Abbott

... he was in an unusually susceptible mood, he took a little deerhide case, artistically made by a Blackfoot Indian, from his pocket, and extracted from it the somewhat faded photograph of an English girl. He had got it from the lad he had buried among the ranges of the Pacific slope, and it had been his companion in many a desolate camp ...

— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss

Words linked to "Blackfoot" : Algonquian language, blackfoot daisy, Algonquin, Algonquian, Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian