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Blackfoot

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Noun

1. blackfoot

a member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains

2. blackfoot

any of the Algonquian languages spoken by the Blackfoot

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Blackfoot

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noun
1. plural -feet or -foot
a member of a group of Native American peoples formerly living in the northwestern Plains
2. 
any of the languages of these peoples, belonging to the Algonquian family

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Blackfoot

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nounWord forms: plural ˈBlackˌfeet or ˈBlackˌfoot
1. 
a. 
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
b. 
a member of the subgroup
2. 
the Algonquian language of this people

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Blackfoot

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n. pl. Blackfoot or Black·feet (-fēt′)
1. A member of a Native American confederacy located on the northern Great Plains, composed of the Blackfoot, Blood, and Piegan tribes. Traditional Blackfoot life was based on nomadic buffalo hunting.
2. A member of the northernmost tribe of the Blackfoot confederacy, inhabiting central Alberta.
3. The Algonquian language of the Blackfoot, Blood, and Piegan.
4. See Sihasapa.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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