Blackfoot Tribe Research Paper

The Blackfoot tribe also known as the Siksika tribe were aggressive people who followed buffalo and refused to let the white people take their land. The Blackfoot tribe was established in 1855 from a treaty. The Blackfoot Indians lived mainly in Alberta, Canada, the Great Plains, Montana, Idaho, and North and South Dakota. They shared the land in Montana with the Assiniboine tribe, the Cheyenne tribe, the Crow tribe, the Gros Ventre tribe, the Kootenai tribe, the Salish tribe, the Sioux tribe, and the Shoshone tribe. In North and South Dakota, the land was prairies covered by grass with streams and rivers. In the rivers and streams, they would find various fish such as crayfish and mussels. The climate in North and South Dakota was hot in the summer and very cold in the winter. …show more content…
For example they did the Buffalo Dance, the Sun Dance, and their tribe was full of Christians. Also, the Head-Smashed-Inn is a hill site in southwestern Alberta that is very special to the tribe. This spot has been around for about 7,000 years. The tribe live in tepees that were constructed from wooden poles covered with animal skins such as buffalo hides. In warm weather men and boys wore little clothing, usually just a breech cloth. In cold weather they wore a warm robe made from tanned buffalo skin. They also wore fringed buckskin tunics decorated with beads and furs. The type of clothes worn by the women were ankle length dresses made of buckskin and were decorated with beads. The Chiefs of the tribe wore upright feathers arranged in a halo war bonnet decorated with eagle feathers, ermine fur and

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