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OP Is the proper term, Blackfoot tribe? or blackfeet tribe?
the proper term would be Native American.
both are used:
http://www.geocities.com/bigorrin/blac.htm
http://www.blackfeetnation.com/
formerly known as etaoin...
Here is a site that gives origin of the name. Scroll down about one third:
http://www.umt.edu/globalfirenet/chiefmtn.htm
The origin semms to indicate that only "Blackfeet" makes any sense.
A Google search for "Blackfeet Indians" yielded nada.
However there is a page of links for "Blackfoot Indians"
Years ago I found pens made by the Blackfoot Indians" that were super...tons of ink and no gloppy tips. Pen said Blackfoot Indians right on barrell . Didn't we do this once before...looooong ago? No offense to newcomers...sometimes I cannot recall my name, other times ...well it's just luck! I guess!
P.S. Ah Hah! Thread begun by Of Troy re pens :
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=39727
Reading old entry there seems there is confusion over Blackfoot/Blackfeet. And the Bureau of indian Affair page is unavailable. If you *really want to know try google of "U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs."
Good luck!
More than you want probably.
http://www.roadtripusa.com/us_2/montana.html
The tribal reservation is in Montana near Canadian border. Scroll about half way thru and near ochre-tinted insert for Glacier NAtional Park you'll find info on the Blackfeet.
WHEW!
"However there is a page of links for "Blackfoot Indians" "
The Blackfoot Indians were the ones who went through the charcoal of the forest fire
hopping on one foot only. To prove how rugged they were. The history books
however have forgotten to mention that there right footed ones and left footed ones.
When I was young I was a member of a street gang of intellectual hoodlums who, after a hard night of breaking into parking meters, would sit in cars with our intellectual chicks, around our secluded garbage dump, drinking nickels and nickels worth of cheap beer, and asking each other weighty questions in order to determine the order that we were to be pecked.
One pseudo-intellectual puzzle that I thought cool was one that some of you might remember, it goes something like this...
There are two tribes of Indians, the Blackfeet and the Whitefeet. The Whitefooted indians never lied, and the Blackfooted indians never told the truth. Both tribes, however, always kept their feet covered, and the conundrum was to determine which one of these interesting savages was which. But, and here's the catch, only by asking them questions about their feet.
I think you got as many questions as you needed to make a determination. Anyone remember the game and want to play?
I think the method was rather simple.
I will now try to remember what it was.
I hope I got the instructions right.
Milum the Hun.
interesting savages
good grief, what century are we living in?
formerly known as etaoin...
only by asking them questions about their feet
Did you know there's a creeping rot on your feet?
Then you look at their feet when they remove their quaint savage moccasins.
re:interesting savages
red]good grief, what century are we living in?
Oh, come on.. Milo was having us on, and first used a series of diparaging terms about himself and his companions.. and signed off as "the Hun"...
he managed to dis a large number of groups (many of which he claimed to belong to!) His post was good natured.. given how he defined his puzzle as pseudo-intelectual, i hardly think we need to react to his post as if he were some sort of rude, politically incorrect brute.
which he might be.. but that's fodder for an other thread!
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