Blackfoot

How To Use Blackfoot In A Sentence

• One morning, while visiting in a Blackfoot Indian camp, I saw the men smoking kinnikinick leaves, and I asked if they had any legend concerning the shrub. Wild Life on the Rockies
• Domesticated dogs carried Blackfoot belongings by pulling a loaded travois consisting of two long poles attached to the dog's sides.
• Each Blackfoot reservation is governed by a general council headed by a single chairman.
• The Blackfoot is a sworn and determined foe to all white men, and he has often been heard to declare that he would rather hang the scalp of a "pale face" to his girdle, than kill a buffalo to prevent his starving. Townsend Chapter 6
• The Blackfoot is fifty paces in breadth, and is bordered by dense thickets of willow - near the mouth there is a large solitary mound or hill, called the "Blackfoot Butte. Life in the Rocky Mountains
• Fifty years ago the name Blackfoot was one of terrible meaning to the white traveller who passed across that desolate buffalo-trodden waste which lay to the north of the Yellowstone River and east of the Rocky Mountains. Blackfoot Lodge Tales
• The Blackfoot never coveted a territorially bound nation-state, yet their nationalism was intrinsically tied to their territory and to Blackfoot conceptualisations of territoriality.
• Blackfoot was exactly as predicted: very touchy in the mouth, and working well under pressure of neck-rein and knee. Magic's Price
• The Blackfoot is the hereditary enemy of the Crow, toward whom hostility is like a cherished principle of religion; for every tribe, besides its casual antagonists, has some enduring foe with whom there can be no permanent reconciliation. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
• It is called Blackfoot, and is classed as one of the branches of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne