blackfoot

1. uncountableA tropical American bush of the genus Melampodium.

plural Blackfoots · plural Blackfeet

1. A member of a North American confederacy of several tribes.

   "This is how - they brought me home - after a fight with the Blackfeet."

   1952, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Unbeliever; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 42

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   Bears and other ferocious beasts resented man's intrusion into their domain; so, too, did the Blackfoot Indians and other tribes, whose savage hostility was a constant menace to the lives of the toiling engineers.

   1954 February, Trevor Holloway, “Canada's Transcontinental Routes”, in Railway Magazine, page 128

   Meanwhile, its original inhabitants were kept out by dint of force, their earlier uses of the land redefined as inappropriate or even illegal. To this day, for instance, the Blackfeet continue to be accused of “poaching” on the lands of Glacier National Park that originally belonged to them and that were ceded by treaty only with the proviso that they be permitted to hunt there.

   1995, William Cronon, “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature”, in Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

   Synonyms: Niitsitapi, Niitsítapi

1. The Algonquian language of these people.
2. A city, the county seat of Bingham County, Idaho, United States.