Blackfoot Indians

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Blackfoot Indians

• By
• Emee

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Homes

• Blackfoot lived in tipis
• Blackfoot used travois to carry tipis different
  places
• Blackfoot used fire pits to heat their homes
• A tipi covered consistently about 15 hides of
  buffalo

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Family Life

• All Blackfoot lived together in tipis
• The first wife had authority over the other wives
• The women took care of the children
• The wives clothing, cooked, and preserved food
  for the winter
• Men hunted buffalo and other animals

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Clothing

• Blackfoot men wore fringed buckskin shirts
• Men also wore breech clothes and leggings
• The leggings protected them when they hunted
• Blackfoot women wore long dresses made from elk
  hides
• They decorated their dresses with fringes, beads,
  elk teeth, cowrie shells, or quills

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Foods

• The Blackfoot hunted and gathered their food
• They hunted moose, elk, deer, rabbit, pronghorn,
  quail, and American biscon (buffalo)
• The buffalo provided much of their meat
• They ate the meat dried and fresh.
• They mixed the dried meat with wild berries and
  buffalo fat to make pemmican

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Crafts

• The Blackfoot were excellent craftspeople
• They used, rocks, plants, berries, clay, and ash
  to make paint
• Blackfoot women painted pictographs and geometric
  designs on the inside of tipi liners
• They also decorated clothing, bags, and belts

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Blackfoot Children

• Blackfoot children were an important part of the
  family
• The children learned a lot by their family
• Boys learned how to make bows and arrows
• Girls learned how to make cook, prepare buffalo
  hides, and do bead and quill work
• Both boys and girls went through a rite of passage

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