Mr. Neely - Blackfoot Tribe. Blackfoot Tribe- Daniel, Wesley, Stephen, Matthew, Jordan. Table of Contents. Subject. Name. Introduction. All. The Flag. Jordan. Homes and the big rock legend. Daniel. Transportation. Stephen. Clothing. Stephen. Weapons and Tools. Jordan. Toys and Games. Indians were originally a nomadic American Indian tribe that migrated from the Great. General Blackfoot Indian Facts. Technically the official name of the tribe is. The Blackfoot language is. The settlers brought with them horses and technology but also disease and weapons. Jordan. Ceremonies. Jordan. Chief Crowfoot. Jordan. Language. Jordan. Food. Wesley. Animals. Wesley. Plants. Wesley. Buffalo. Wesley. Territory The Blackfoot. This was the only time of year when all the people of the tribe assembled at the same place. Is the name of the tribe 'Blackfoot' or 'Blackfeet'? Where did this name come from? What were Blackfoot weapons and tools like in the past? The Blackfoot tribe had a variety of weapons and tools. Some of the Blackfoot tribe tools and weapons were made with buffalo bone and horns but some were also. Weapons are handmade replicated or authentic Indian weapons. Remove This Item Tribe: Blackfoot. Blackfeet Indians, Siksika Tribe, Siksika Indians (. As usual, many of the early estimates of Blackfoot population are plainly unreliable. How They Eat. Wesley. Special Dishes. Wesley. Environment. Matthew. Fun Facts. All. Bibliography. All. Introduction. This page is about the Blackfoot tribe way of living including their homes, transportation, food, weapons, enviroment, tools, games and other interesting facts. We hope you like it. The Flag. The Blackfoot flag has a base colour of blue and has black and white designs on it. On the left side of the flag is a ceremonial stick with 2. On the other side are 3. In the circle is a map of the Blackfoot reservation with an Indian war headdress on it. Above the headdress are the words . The circle represents the cycle of life and the feathers represent energy and power. The arrangement of the feathers on the ceremonial staff represent a buffalo's ribs. Homes. The Blackfoot tribe was a tribe that used a teepee. The teepee was made out of thick but light sticks that made the structure. The tribe would put Buffalo hide over the top of the sticks for insulation. In summer they stitched together pieces of cloth and draped it over the top in layers. The teepees had a hole in the top called a smokehole. The smokehole was designed for the purpose of letting smoke drift out when a fire was going on inside the teepee. The smokehole was located at the top of the teepee. When the tribe wanted to move locations it was easy. The women would take down the teepee and carry it on their shoulders while the men watched out for animals and carried the tools. The women would start by taking down the hide that insulated the teepee, then they would unlash the teepee's sticks and take them down. This all happened in about 2. It was a very easy house to move around and set up. Inside the teepee animal hide covered the floor. There were also tools like hammers and tomahawks, along with personal belongings like jewellrey and clothes inside the teepee. A teepee ranged from about 1. The designs on their teepees were painted to honor the animal spirits. They believed the spirits would protect their families. There were seven different traditional designs; the black buffalo design, the big rock design, the buffalo head design, the crow design, the snake design, the winter design and the yellow buffalo design. There is often a legend for each design. The teepees were very useful for the blackfoot tribe because they were portable as it explained before. The tribe was always moving around. They were moving because they were hunters and they went wherever the animals went. They obviously needed food. The way they entered the teepee was with a small thin hole on the front. This hole was sometimes covered with a cloth that you could lift to get in. The cloth was stitched on. Everything about the blackfoot teepee is amazing and the blackfoot are very clever natives. Here is a legend on the big rock design. The big rock legend. Napi is the supernatural trickster of the Blackfoot. In this particular story everybody knew Napi had cheated someone out of the nice buffalo robe he was wearing as he trekked northward with his pal Coyote. Napi had played tricks on so many other creatures the Sun and the Wind thought that they would play a trick on him. The Sun shone very brightly making Napi hotter and sweatier and the robe heavier. When the robe got too heavy to wear Napi asked Coyote what he should do with it. So that is what they agreed to do. They went over to the Rock, praised the Rock, and Napi made a gift of the robe to the Big Rock. No sooner had Napi and Coyote headed off again when the Wind started blowing very cold air. Napi began to think he should have kept his robe. He tells Coyote to run back and take the robe from the Rock. Coyote doesn’t want to have anything to do with taking back the robe. So Napi goes back and tells the Rock that he has come for the robe. To which the Rock replies, “You gave the robe to me.” Napi responds, “What are you going to do? You have always been here and are going to stay here. I am going to be on my way.” Napi takes the robe and heads off again with Coyote reluctantly by his side. All of a sudden Coyote hears some noise and looks back and sees the Rock rolling after them. Coyote and Napi become quite startled at what is going on and the two of them start to run. Napi and Coyote run past all the animals which Napi had played tricks on. Napi asks the animals to help him. The animals are quite amused to see Napi finally getting a taste of his own medicine and will not help. Coyote realizes the Rock is only chasing Napi and so he runs away from Napi. Napi runs along prairies, coulees and rivers, staying just ahead of the rolling Rock. Napi is getting very tired. Some swallows finally decided to help him. The swallows swoop down and start pecking off pieces of the Rock. Some stories even say they use their droppings to break the Rock apart. The swallows see Napi is getting too tired to run much longer. They swoop down on the Rock one more time and stop the Rock by breaking it in two. The Rock still sits on the spot near Okotoks, Alberta where it broke in two. Read more at Suite. The Legend of Napi and the Rock: Napi on the Run From the Big Rock of Okotoks ? Well the answer is NO because they weren’t coastal people. But if they had to cross rivers or lakes they would make rafts to cross. Rafts were made out of logs or strong sticks in the form of a big wooden mat. Horses weren’t in North America until colonists brought them over from Europe. Instead they used dog pulling travois (a kind of drag sled ) to help them move belongings from place to place. But once horses were available they quickly adopted to them and the people became more migratory. Sometimes they would use toboggans made out of wood to get around. But mostly they would just walk place to place. Most of the Blackfoot tribe's clothes were made from material that was easy to get like deer skin and antelope hide. Lots of women in the tribe wore deer skin dresses with frigens. Most women in the tribe would make the clothes sometimes with colorful beads, porcupine quils and feathers. Most women will wear colorful bracelets and earrings made from seashells. Rarely they would use precious metals to make necklaces, bracelets, and earings. Some beads were worn in their hair. Women would wear a principal garment which was a dress that fell down to the ankles. It was held up by straps that hung on the shoulders. In cold weather they whore sleeves and leggings. The dress was decorated with porcuipine quills, pictures of animals and plants, and cut fringes. They would wear elk and and deer teeth bracelets and neklaces. Rarley they would use precious metals to make bracelets and necklaces. WEAPONS AND TOOLSUsually, the kinds of tools you would use mattered mostly on the area you lived in because you would need certain tools to gather and hunt certain things that were near you. The Blackfoot tribe settled in the northern plains, especially Alberta,Canada and that's why they mostly hunted buffalo, because buffaloes are what mostly lived there. Below are some weapons and tools (with descriptions and pictures) that the Blackfoot Indians used: Long bows and arrowswere one of the most used weapons of the Blackfoot tribe because the resources they had available were goodfor making bows and it was also safer to strike from a distance, especially since they hunted dangerouscreatures. They were often made using snake skins, porcupine quills and a selection of different woodsand barks. To the right is a Lego example of a Blackfoot Indian hunting with a longbow and a horse. Tomahawksare a type of ax that the Blackfoot people, and many other Indian tribes used. Tomahawks were often thrown at enemies but they were also used for close combat, rituals and some could be used to smoke tobacco! The shaft was traditionally made from ash, maple or hickory tree wood and was no more than 6cm long. A tomahawk head was originally made stone, especially polished soapstone and sometimes it had designs carved into it. Spearswere extremely long and they were even thrown sometimes so the Blackfoot people could attack while keeping a distance from their enemies and to help prevent animals to run off. These spears had extremely long wooden shafts that ranged up to about 2. The deadly spear tips were made of metals including flint and copper. Spears were also great for killing fish because they could reach deep into the water and the tip could easily pierce through a fishes body. Other Weaponsthat the Blackfoot Indians used include wooden clubs, wooden lances, an assortment of different kinds of knives and later they traded with Europeans to get guns. They also used armor and shields made of buffalo hide to protect themselves from threats. To the right is a Lego example of two Blackfoot Indians, a horse and weapons. Animals. The Blackfoot native american tribe used animals to aid them. They sometimes used hunting dogs to track down then attack their foes. Blackfoot people also often used horse to transport themselves and trade items or weapons and food. Horses would also be used for war and hunting. Fishing. Since they would need water to survive, the Blackfoot people would build villages near a source of water but they would also take advantage of it by fishing in it as well. Fishing hooks were made using metals and poles were made with graphite or some types of plants. Paddles and fishing boats were mostly made of types of woods. As bait they might use worms or somethings that the fish would eat. The Blackfoot tribe probably made most of their fishing tools designed specifically for salmon which was the main type of fish they caught. To the right is a Lego example of two Blackfoot Indians fishing.
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