Meaning of Blackfoot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of a North American confederacy of several tribes.
2. The Algonquian language of these people.
3. A tropical American bush of the genus Melampodium.
   uncountable
4. A city, the county seat of Bingham County, Idaho, United States.

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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