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Blackfoot

Blackfoot

1 8.4
A person from an Indigenous group that lives on the northern Plains, mainly in Montana and Alberta
  • noun
  • /ˈblækfʊt/
translation icon : Blackfoot
  • Alberta Frank is a renowned Blackfoot professor who teaches Indigenous studies at the university.

Examples

  • It's about a Blackfoot university professor named Alberta Frank.

    Academic text (1998)

  • The Blackfoot people have a rich cultural heritage that includes traditional storytelling and art.

  • During our visit to Montana, we learned about the history and traditions of the Blackfoot tribe.

Synonyms

Native American
vsBlackfoot
161 3.4

A person whose family lived in North or South America before Europeans arrived

is narrower, naming a single Algonquian group in the northwestern plains

Compounds

blackfoot daisy
  • US
9.4

A low bushy plant with white daisy-like flowers that grows well in dry, rocky soil

Blackfoot language
9.9

A language spoken by the Blackfoot people of the northwest Great Plains in North America

Surface Forms

Blackfoot singular
Blackfoots plural

Morphology

Blackfoot = black + foot (opaque) = black + foot

Although built from the words 'black' + 'foot', the term functions as an ethnonym and the meaning 'a member of the Blackfoot people' is not deducible from the literal components by an average B1 learner.

Etymology

Blackfoot The name Blackfoot comes from the English parts black and foot, which mean 'black' and 'foot'. One common story says people used it because the group wore dark shoes or left tracks on burned ground, so today Blackfoot means a member of that Indigenous group of the northern Plains.