Example sentences for: blackfoot

How can you use “blackfoot” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Blackfoot went to war with Shoshoni and Crow Indians, to the south, for their horses, and were in turn attacked by the Cree from the north for their territory’s great buffalo herds.

  • By 1877, under the Canadian government’s Blackfoot Treaty, the native peoples gave up their hunting grounds to raise cattle on reserves instead.

  • The Blackfoot of Alberta are a classic example.

  • The Choctaw said, Apalachi helpers, allies; the Blackfoot, Atsina Good people the Nootka, also, inadvertently named the Wakash, saying, “Good = waukash good just as the Sheepscot named the Wannoak by saying they were nopesawenoak warriors; the Pomo said of their southwestern cousins, the Kashaya, that they were kashaya nimble, quick, by way of praise, blame, or mere description.

  • Still others were given by neighboring tribes and, sometimes, even when the literal sense is known the connotations are unclear: for example, the Dakota name for the Iowa (Ayuhwa) Sleepy Ones; the Blackfoot name for the Kainah , a division of the Blackfoot, (Ah-kai-nah) Many Chiefs.


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