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Blackfoot

noun Black·foot \ ˈblak-ˌfu̇t \

Definition of Blackfoot

plural Blackfeet or Blackfoot
1 : a member of an American Indian people of Montana, Alberta, and Saskatchewan
2 : the Algonquian language of the Blackfeet

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1790

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