The term Siksika, derived from Siksikáíkoan ( a Blackfoot person ), may also be used in self-identification.

The Blackfoot language is also agglutinative.

The Piegan ( also Pikuni, Pikani, and Piikáni ) are one of the three tribes of the Siksiká or Blackfoot confederacy.

Blackfoot is also home to the Eastern Idaho State Fair, which operates between Labor Day weekend and the following weekend.

Groups such as Ozark Mountain Daredevils, ZZ Top,. 38 Special, Confederate Railroad, Outlaws, Molly Hatchet, Blackfoot, Point Blank, Black Oak Arkansas, and the Edgar Winter Group also thrived in this genre.

The Niitsitapi, also known as the Blackfoot Indians, reside in the Great Plains of Montana and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

The people also revived the Black Lodge Society, responsible for protecting songs and dances of the Blackfoot.

* Crowfoot, ( ISAPO-MUXIKA-" Crow Indian's Big Foot ", also known in French as Pied de Corbeau ), Chief of the Big Pipes band ( later renamed Moccasin band, a splinter band of the Biters band ), Head Chief of the South Siksika, by 1870 one of three Head Chiefs of the Siksika or the Blackfoot proper

However, Plains Algonquian, which also includes Arapaho and Blackfoot, is an areal rather than genetic subgrouping.

Malcolm Clarke raped a Blackfoot woman, the relative of his wife who was also a Blackfoot woman.

This letter also appears in Arin, and Blackfoot.

In recognition of his work, in 1922 the Kainai Nation ( also called Blood tribe ) of the Blackfoot Confederacy adopted Long Lance.

The Blackfoot Indians – also known as the Blackfeet Indians – reside in the Great Plains of Montana and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

*** Parapterois heterura, also known as the Blackfoot Lionfish

The Sihásapa or Blackfoot Sioux are a division of the Titonwan, or Teton ( also known as Lakota ) Sioux.

There is a distinct difference between Old Blackfoot ( also called High Blackfoot ), the dialect spoken by many older speakers ; and New Blackfoot ( also called Modern Blackfoot ), the dialect spoken by younger speakers.

* Maskepetoon ( Maski Pitonew-‘ Broken Arm ’, ‘ Crooked Arm ’, later called Peacemaker, Chief of a group of Rocky / Mountain Cree or Asini Wachi Wi Iniwak, born about 1807 in the Saskatchewan River region, because of his bravery he was called by the hostile Blackfoot Mon-e-ba-guh-now or Mani-kap-ina (‘ Young Man Chief ’), turned later to the Methodist missionaries, what him and his followers brought into conflict with the Catholic free Rocky Cree under the leadership of Pesew, moved to the reserve and was soon known as the Peacemaker, was killed in 1869 in a Blackfoot camp in Alberta by the enemy war chief Big Swan, in an attempt to make peace between the two peoples unarmed )

The town, in the Indian River School District, was founded in 1747 and has been known as Blackfoot Town, Dagsbury and Dagsborough.

The four nations come together to make up what is known as the Blackfoot Confederacy, meaning that they have banded together to help one another.

He became known as Left Hand and later by the Blackfoot as Old Man.

The name ' Blackfoot ' came from the colour of the peoples ' leather footwear, known as moccasins.

Traditionally these people have been known as Kootenay or Kootenai, which is an anglicisation of the Blackfoot word used to refer to the Ktunaxa, so in some of their tribal organizations and activities, the Ktunaxa refer to themselves as Kootenay, or in Montana, Kootenai.

They were relatively well known to the Blackfoot, and sometimes their relations with them were violent.

Traditionally these people have been known as Kootenay, which is an anglicism of the Blackfoot word used to refer to the Ktunaxa, so in some of their tribal organizations and activities, the Ktunaxa refer to themselves as Kootenay.

Albert Lacombe ( 28 February 1827 – 12 December 1916 ), commonly known in Alberta simply as Father Lacombe, was a French-Canadian Roman Catholic missionary who lived among and evangelized the Cree and also visited the Blackfoot First Nations of North Western Canada.

It was formerly known as Blackfoot Trail Freeway, but was renamed to honour the first Native American to win the marathon.

" Old Man " is how the Great Mystery is " known " by the Blackfoot people.

The remaining Santee, Yankton, and Yanktonai whose best known leader was Inkpaduta, were joined by about 650 Hunkpapa and Blackfoot ( Lakota ) Teton warriors.

These are now known as the Blackfoot Confederacy, the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation.

* Blackstar, also known as Blackfoot, a character in the Warriors novel series

Across from the historic site, the route intersects Blackfoot Dr. known locally as Old Balmorhea Rd.

He was one of the influential chiefs of the House Cree or Wāskahikaniwiyiniwak, supplied between 1852 – 1854 Fort Carlton with bison meat and pemmican, acquired in his youth by constant military conflicts the respect of Crowfoot, the chief of the Siksika, the Blackfoot called Mistāwasis respectfully “ The Iron Buffalo of the Plains ”)

* Pitikwahanapiwiyin ( Pîhtokahânapiwiyin-‘ Poundmaker ’, Chief of the River Cree, born about 1842 in the North Battleford Region in Saskatchewan ; son of Sikakwayan (‘ Skunk Skin ’), an shaman of the Assiniboine and a Franco-Canadian Métisse, the sister of Chief Mistāwasis (" Big Child "), Chief of a band consisting of Plains River Cree ( Sīpīwininiwak-paskwāwiyiniwak ), Woods River Cree (‘ Sīpīwininiwak-sakāwiyiniwak ’), Western Woodland Cree ( Sakāwiyiniwak ) and Nakoda ( Stoney ), was adopted in 1873 by the Siksika chief Crowfoot as son, lived several years by the Blackfeet-name Makoyi-koh-kin (‘ Wolf Thin Legs ’) under the Siksika, returned to the Cree, became counselor of the Chief Pihew-kamihkosit (‘ Red Pheasant ’), was involved in the negotiations for the Treaty 6 in 1876 and went in 1879 in the Poundmaker reservation, later he participated in the siege of Battleford and the Battle of Cut Knife, died 4 July 1886 in Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta )

The Blackfoot Confederacy consists of the North Peigan ( Aapátohsipikáni or Piikáni ), South Peigan ( Aamsskáápipikani or Piegan Blackfeet ), the Kainai Nation ( Káínaa-“ Many Chief people ” or Blood ), and the Siksika Nation (“ Blackfoot ”, or more correctly Siksikáwa-" Blackfoot people ").

( European Canadians and Americans mistakenly referred to all the Niitsitapi nations as " Blackfoot ", but only one nation was called Siksika or Blackfoot.

Only one of the Niitsitapi are called Blackfoot or Siksika.

Among them were the Nakoda, Tsuu T ' ina, and the Blackfoot Confederacy, consisting of the Kainai, Piikanai, and Siksika peoples.

Blackfoot Crossing was used by the Siksika as a winter campsite and is today a part of their reserve.

With bison numbers declining and white settlers becoming increasingly common in the region, the Nakoda, Tsuu T ’ ina, Kainai, Piikanai, and Siksika met with representatives of the Canadian government at Blackfoot Crossing on the Bow River and signed Treaty 7 on 22 September 1877.

The agreement was signed at the Blackfoot Crossing of the Bow River, at the present-day Siksika Nation reserve, approximately 100 km east of Calgary.

* Siksika Nation ( Blackfoot )

In Canada, the Plains Cree call this ceremony the Thirst Dance ; the Saulteaux ( Plains Objibwa ) call it the Rain Dance ; and the Blackfoot ( Siksika, Kainai, and Piikani ) call it the Medicine Dance.