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Black⋅foot

  [blak-foot] noun, plural -feet, (especially collectively) -foot, adjective
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–noun
1. a member of a North American tribe of Indians of Algonquian stock.
2. the Algonquian language of the Blackfeet.
–adjective
3. of or pertaining to the Blackfeet.
Origin:
1785–95; trans. of Blackfoot siksíka

Black⋅foot

  [blak-foot]
–noun
a town in SE Idaho. 10,065.
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Black·foot   (blāk'fŏŏt')   
n.   pl. Blackfoot or Black·feet (-fēt')

    1. A Native American confederacy located on the northern Great Plains, composed of the Blackfoot, Blood, and Piegan tribes. Traditional Blackfoot life was based on nomadic buffalo hunting.

    2. A member of this confederacy.

    3. The northernmost tribe of the Blackfoot confederacy, inhabiting central Alberta.

    4. A member of this tribe.

    1. The northernmost tribe of the Blackfoot confederacy, inhabiting central Alberta.

    2. A member of this tribe.

  3. The Algonquian language of the Blackfoot, Blood, and Piegan.

  4. See Sihasapa.


[Translation of Blackfoot siksiká (perhaps from the blackening of their moccasins, either from painting them or from walking near prairie fires) : sik, black + ika, foot.]
Black'foot' adj.
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