Blackfeet

Variant of Blackfoot

Blackfoot definition

Black·foot (blak′fo̵ot′)

noun pl. Blackfeet -·feet′ or Blackfoot -·foot′

    1. a member of a North American Indian people consisting of three subgroups (the Blackfoot proper, the Blood, and the Piegan) and living in Montana, Saskatchewan, and Alberta
    2. a member of the subgroup
  2. the Algonquian language of this people

Etymology: transl. of Blackfoot siksīka

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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