8 Humanities
  • Humanities 1
    • Woodlands Indians: Algonquin
    • Woodlands Indians: Lenape
    • Woodlands Indians: Iroquois
    • Plains Indians: Cherokee
    • Plains Indians: Apache
    • Plains Indians: Cree
    • Plains: Sioux Indians
    • Woodlands Indians: Seneca
    • Inuit
    • Inventions and Discoveries
    • Wars and Disputes
    • Important People: John Cabot
    • Important People: Henry Hudson
    • Important People: Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
  • Humanities 2
    • Blackfoot and Sioux
    • Iroquois Confederacy
    • Cherokee and Apache
    • Cayuga and Onondoga
    • Native American Innovations
    • Woodland Indians: Iroquois and Algonquin
    • Important People: Henry Hudson & John Cabot
    • Important People: Peter Stuyvesant and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
    • Wars Over Resources
    • Woodland Indians: Mohawk and Oneida
    • Woodlands and Plains: Hierarchy, Laws and Punishments
  • Humanities 3
    • Iroquois Confederacy
    • Inventions and Discoveries
    • Native American Inventions
    • Lenape
    • Inuit
    • Woodland Indians: Iroquois and Algonquin
    • Important People
    • Plains Indians: Apache and Blackfoot
    • Woodland Indians: Seneca
    • History, Wars and Disputes
    • Woodland Indians: Mohawk

Plains Indians

Blackfoot

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Basic Information

The Blackfoot lived in the regions, that are known today as Canada, Alberta and Montana. The current population of the Blackfoot is 32,000 people. North peigan, south peigan, kainai nation, and the siksika nation, all make up the blackfoot tribe. One tribe would have 80 to 240 people to protect themselves from enemies, and 10 to 30 lodges. A lodge is a small house at the gates of the tribe.  

They were called the Blackfoot, because they were putting dark paint and ashes on moccasins. They were a nomadic tribe. Nomadic means that they didn't stay in one place for a long time. Blackfoot Teepees.

 Photographer. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 22 May 2014.http://quest.eb.com/images/115_2676125

They constantly moved around from place to place when they needed for example water and they already used all of it in the first place, they will move to another place that has water or food. Till 1730 the blackfoot tribe would travel by foot. When the blackfoot got to the plains other tribes had already been using horses. So the blackfoot also adopted the horses. The first person that was to discover and meet the Blackfoot tribe was Anthony Henday from the Hudson bay company. 

http://history.alberta.ca/headsmashedin/history/blackfoothistory/blackfoothistory.aspx



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