Fearing attack by the Blackfoot Indians, the overland expedition veered south of Lewis and Clark's route into what is now Wyoming and in the process passed across Union Pass and into Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

The Blackfoot language is also agglutinative.

" The Blackfoot creation story takes place directly below Glacier National Park in what is referred as " Badger-Two Medicine ".

Today the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana is the size of Delaware, and the three Blackfoot reserves in Alberta have a much smaller area.

The Blackfoot Tribe is based on lacrosse or the sun, meaning lacrosse is for the creator

The county seat and largest city is Blackfoot.

Atomic City was called " Midway " until 1950, as it is halfway between the towns of Blackfoot and Arco.

Blackfoot is a city in Bingham County, Idaho, United States.

Blackfoot is self-designated the " Potato Capital of the World ", because it claims to have the largest potato industry in the world.

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

Blackfoot is the principal city of the Blackfoot, Idaho Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Bingham County.

Blackfoot is located at ( 43. 190068 ,-112. 346037 ).

Blackfoot is served by the Blackfoot School District # 55 and the Snake River School District # 52.

Firth is located on the eastern side of the Snake River, facing the Blackfoot Mountains.

Shelley is located on the eastern side of the Snake River, facing the Blackfoot Mountains.

The area that is now Lewistown was once the territory of the Blackfoot Native Americans.

Due to language and cultural patterns, anthropologists believe that the Blackfoot originally coalesced as a group whilst living in the forests of what is now the Northeastern United States.

The Blackfoot Nation is made up of four nations.

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.

The creation myth is another commonly shared piece of oral history among the Blackfoot Nation.

Unemployment is a challenging problem on the Blackfoot Reservations today.

* " Warped ", a song by Blackfoot from the 1980 album Tomcattin '

* " Rainbow ", a song by Blackfoot from After the Reign

Blackfoot music is the music of the Blackfoot tribes ( best translated in the Blackfoot language as nitsínixki-" I sing ", from nínixksini-" song ").

Blackfoot music is primarily vocal, using few instruments ( called ninixkiátsis, derived from the word for song and associated primarily with European-American instruments ), only percussion and voice, and few words.

Another change in Blackfoot music is increased relatedness of the drum part to the song now than in the past.

Songs begin with a " head motif " repeated by the second singer and then used to " generate " the rest of the song in ways which are fairly predictable to Blackfoot listeners, which facilitates accomplishing the ideal of learning songs in one hearing ( p. 100-101 ).

The basic musical unit in Blackfoot music is the song, and musicians, people who sing and drum, are called singers or drummers with both words being equivalent and referring to both activities ( p. 49 ).

* " Good Morning ", a song by Blackfoot from Marauder ( Blackfoot album )

*" Fox Chase ", a song by Blackfoot on their album, Tomcattin '

When the Blackfoot arrived that morning they found only the old women, whom the Blackfoot killed in vengeance.

When European explorers travelled west, they most likely met the Siksiká first and assumed all Niitsítapi of the Blackfoot Confederacy were Blackfoot, which is incorrect.

When they reach Blackfoot country, Teal Eye disappears one night.

" In 1949 he traveled to a Blackfoot Sun Dance in Idaho where he performed on percussion and flute, returning to the Native American music he first came in contact with as a child.

Despite this, Sun Dance practitioners, such as the Plains Cree, Saulteaux, and Blackfoot, continued to hold Sun Dances throughout the persecution period, minus the prohibited features.

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.

* Strikes ( album ), third album by Southern rock band Blackfoot, released in 1979

This route had the disadvantages of being much too rough for wagons and controlled by the Blackfoot Indians.

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 )

* 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 Crow were raided for horses by the powerful Blackfoot Confederacy, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, Pawnee, and Ute.

* Flying High, an album by Blackfoot

The Sarcee ( called by the Blackfoot: saahsi or sarsi-" the stubborn ones ") and the Atsina became allies, joined the Confederacy and essentially merged with the Pikuni.

As the buffalo were naturally driven into the area by the gradual late summer drying off of the open grasslands, the Blackfoot would carry out great communal buffalo kills.

Up until around 1730, the Blackfoot traveled by foot and used dogs to carry and pull some of their goods.

The Cree and Assiniboine lived just like the Blackfoot by the dwindling herds of the buffalo and their hunters followed their prey, which was about 1850 found almost exclusively on the territory of the Blackfoot.

They hoped to defeat the Blackfoot weakened by smallpox and attacked a camp near Fort Whoop-Up ( called Akaisakoyi-“ Many Dead ”).

Family was highly valued by the Blackfoot Indians.

One of the most famous traditions held by the Blackfoot would be their story of sun and the moon.

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

* 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