Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Native american tribes: the history of the blackfeet and the blackfoot confederacy, paperback/charles river editors

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Includes pictures Includes accounts of the Blackfeet written by contemporaries Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Includes a table of contents From the Trail of Tears to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete without the inclusion of the Native Americans that lived on the continent before European settlers arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Since the first contact between natives and settlers, tribes like the Sioux, Cherokee, and Navajo have both fascinated and perplexed outsiders with their history, language, and culture.

In Charles River Editors' Native American Tribes series, readers can get caught up to speed on the history and culture of North America's most famous native tribes in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.

They call themselves Niitsitapi (Original People), but in the United States, they are known as the Blackfeet.

In Canada, they are known by their more particular band names, one of which is Blackfoot, but regardless of the name, they are a tribe of Native American peoples (First Nations in Canada) who, until the modern time period, lived in small, decentralized bands and hunted the bison on the northern Great Plains.

Stories vary, but the name Blackfeet or Blackfoot, applied to them by others, may have come originally from their practice of dying their moccasin soles black.

That said, their use of an Algonquian language group may indicate that they were relatively recent newcomers to the region from somewhere in the Northeast.

The territory of the Blackfeet, at its greatest extent, encompassed a vast area from the eastern Rocky Mountains of Alberta and Montana and extending several hundred miles out onto the Great Plains, around the upper reaches of the Saskatchewan River and its tributaries in Alberta and the upper reaches of the Missouri River and its tributaries in Montana.

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