The Blackfoot tribe name refers to the dark colored moccasins the people wear there. Blackfoot tribe culture revolved around warfare, the buffalo, and the horse. The Blackfoot tribe lived in Idaho and Montana. Their land remains over 1.5 million acres in size also 15,000 blackfoot live on the Canadian reserves. While 10,000 still live on the USA reservation
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The Blackfoot tribe lived in buffalo-hide houses called teepees which were tents made of buffalo that had a triangular top. Sometimes these teepees were decorated with tribal symbols in order to communicate about the people inside. The Blackfoot ate Buffalo meat, dried meat was stored in rawhide pouches and pemmican, a mixture of ground buffalo meat, and berries.
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The Europeans treated the Blackfoot tribe with disrespect and did not care what they did to the Blackfoot clan. The Europeans took their land and spread disease. 66% of the Blackfoot tribe were wiped out by smallpox when the Europeans arrived. The Blackfoot tribe treated the Europeans with respect by giving them food and teaching them survival skills. Because of the Europeans' disrespect they went into a war with them. Eventually, the Blackfoot clan signed a contract to make peace..
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One famous person in the Blackfoot tribe was Crowfoot he was a chief and warrior. He was responsible for signing a peace treaty with the Canadian government. In The Blackfoot cultures men were responsible for choosing their marriage partners. Unfortunately women did not have a say. But first the men had to show their hunting skills to the woman’s father in order to be allowed to marry her.
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The Blackfoot had a rich culture. They worshipped the sun god the most. Also, something that the Blackfoot clan would use to make music is a drums for a sun dance.They used a tree trunk as the drum and believed their ritual would alter the weather when they needed it. This was important for their farms and survival.
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