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BLACKFOOT (Siksika)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 21 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BLACKFOOT (Siksika) , a tribe and confederacy of See also:North See also:American See also:Indians of Algonquian stock. The name is explained as an allusion to their leggings being observed by the whites to have become blackened by marching over the freshly burned See also:prairie. Their range was around the headwaters of the See also:Missouri, from the Yellowstone northward to the North See also:Saskatchewan and westward to the Rockies. The confederacy consisted of three tribes, the Blackfoot or Siksika proper, the Kaina and the Piegan. During the See also:early years of the 19th See also:century the See also:Black-foots were one of the strongest See also:Indian confederacies of the north-See also:west, numbering some 40,000. At the beginning of the loth century there were about 5000, some in See also:Montana and some in See also:Canada. See See also:Jean L'Heureux, Customs and Religious Ideas of Blackfoot Indians in J. A. I., vol. xv. (1886) ; G. B. See also:Grinnell, Blackfoot See also:Lodge Tales (1892); G.

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