Definition of Blackfoot

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


2. Noun. Any of the Algonquian languages spoken by the Blackfoot.

Definition of Blackfoot

1. a. Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.

Definition of Blackfoot

1. Proper noun. a Native American confederacy of several tribes ¹

2. Proper noun. a member of these tribes ¹

3. Proper noun. the Algonquian language of these people ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackfoot

Black Tuesday
Black and Decker
Black and Deckers
Black and Tan
Black and Tans
Black man
Black person
Black race
Black woman
Blackacre
Blackadder
Blackamoor
Blackbeard
Blackburn
Blackfeet
Blackfoot (current term)
Blackfriar
Blackpool
Blackpudlian
Blackpudlians
Blacks
Blacksburg
Blackshirt
Blackstone
Blackwall hitch
Blackwell
Blackwood
Blagden's law
Blagoevgrad

Literary usage of Blackfoot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"Blackfoot, Idaho, is an important railroad junction on the Montana Division of the Oregon Short Line between Salt Lake and Butte ..."

2. Transactions of the Canadian Institute by Canadian Institute (1849-1914). (1898)
"The Blackfoot Language is spoken by the Indians belonging to the Blackfoot Confederacy, consisting of the tribes known as Bloods, ..."

3. Forest, Lake, and Prairie: Twenty Years of Frontier Life in Western Canada by John McDougall (1895)
"A bay horse called " Blackfoot" came in ahead, and the horse which Mrs. ... Our missionary, Mr. Steinhauer, told me some of the history of " Blackfoot. ..."

4. Linguistic and Oriental Essays: Written from the Year 1840-1903 by Robert Needham Cust (1891)
"The compiler of this Grammar and Dictionary of the language of the Blackfoot Indians is the Rev. John William Tims, trained at the Church Missionary College ..."

5. The Indians of To-day by George Bird Grinnell (1911)
"CHAPTER VI* A Blackfoot SUN AND MOON MYTH ' THE Blackfoot creator is known as ... the dialect spoken by the different tribes of the Blackfoot confederation. ..."

6. Societies of the Plains Indians by Clark Wissler (1916)
"NORTH Blackfoot SOCIETIES. It still remains to consider the corresponding societies of the North Blackfoot division. Our information here leaves much to be ..."

7. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"Blackfoot, Idaho, is an important railroad junction on the Montana Division of the Oregon Short Line between Salt Lake and Butte ..."

8. Transactions of the Canadian Institute by Canadian Institute (1849-1914). (1898)
"The Blackfoot Language is spoken by the Indians belonging to the Blackfoot Confederacy, consisting of the tribes known as Bloods, ..."

9. Forest, Lake, and Prairie: Twenty Years of Frontier Life in Western Canada by John McDougall (1895)
"A bay horse called " Blackfoot" came in ahead, and the horse which Mrs. ... Our missionary, Mr. Steinhauer, told me some of the history of " Blackfoot. ..."

10. Linguistic and Oriental Essays: Written from the Year 1840-1903 by Robert Needham Cust (1891)
"The compiler of this Grammar and Dictionary of the language of the Blackfoot Indians is the Rev. John William Tims, trained at the Church Missionary College ..."

11. The Indians of To-day by George Bird Grinnell (1911)
"CHAPTER VI* A Blackfoot SUN AND MOON MYTH ' THE Blackfoot creator is known as ... the dialect spoken by the different tribes of the Blackfoot confederation. ..."

12. Societies of the Plains Indians by Clark Wissler (1916)
"NORTH Blackfoot SOCIETIES. It still remains to consider the corresponding societies of the North Blackfoot division. Our information here leaves much to be ..."

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