The Blackfoot Tribe Who was the Blackfoot tribe? The Blackfoot Tribe was a tribe that signed its first peace treaty in 1855. They are located mostly in Montana,Idaho, and the Great Plains. They are called the blackfoots because they wore black leather shoes called moccasins. They lived in teepees. A teepee is a small tent that is supported by wooden poles and the covered with animal skin. The blackfoot tribe was a big migrating tribe. They were a big and peaceful tribe. As children in the blackfoot tribe you had responsibilities. Boys had to learn to hunt and girls had to learn how to be a good mother. The children had to learn traditions, holidays, and stories to pass down to their children. In the winter the men and boys would wear a warm
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They mostly ate buffalo and deer. They cooked their meat by roasting it. Sometimes they would boil it in stone bowls. They had a very complex religion. Their main god was the sun. They also believed in a supernatural man named Napi. Napi means old man. They also believed in powers of connections with nature. Two important people in the blackfoot history is Crowfoot and Kalani Queypo. Crowfoot was a blackfoot warrior and chief. He was responsible for signing the peace treaty with the Canadian government. The toughest battle he fought was against alcoholism among his people. They lost that battle. Kalani Queypo is a an actor with a blackfoot heritage. He is in the movies The Royal Tenenbaums and The Juror. The blackfoot tribe had many folktales. A folktale is the traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth. One folktale of the blackfoot tribe is, The story of Poia. The story of Poia is about a girl who wakes up and falls in love with the morning star. She tells everyone how she is in love with the morning star and they all think she’s crazy. The next day she was by the river and saw a man around her age. She tried avoiding him until he came up to her and said, “I know that you were watching me and fell in love with me. Even as you were looking at the sky, I was looking down at you. I watched you in the tall prairie grass and knew that it was only you I wanted to be my wife. Come with me to my home in the sky.” The girl went and got married to the morning star. Soon after that they had a baby and named it
They mostly ate buffalo and deer. They cooked their meat by roasting it. Sometimes they would boil it in stone bowls. They had a very complex religion. Their main god was the sun. They also believed in a supernatural man named Napi. Napi means old man. They also believed in powers of connections with nature. Two important people in the blackfoot history is Crowfoot and Kalani Queypo. Crowfoot was a blackfoot warrior and chief. He was responsible for signing the peace treaty with the Canadian government. The toughest battle he fought was against alcoholism among his people. They lost that battle. Kalani Queypo is a an actor with a blackfoot heritage. He is in the movies The Royal Tenenbaums and The Juror. The blackfoot tribe had many folktales. A folktale is the traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth. One folktale of the blackfoot tribe is, The story of Poia. The story of Poia is about a girl who wakes up and falls in love with the morning star. She tells everyone how she is in love with the morning star and they all think she’s crazy. The next day she was by the river and saw a man around her age. She tried avoiding him until he came up to her and said, “I know that you were watching me and fell in love with me. Even as you were looking at the sky, I was looking down at you. I watched you in the tall prairie grass and knew that it was only you I wanted to be my wife. Come with me to my home in the sky.” The girl went and got married to the morning star. Soon after that they had a baby and named it