Blackfoot
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The Blackfoot are a Native American people known for their nomadic buffalo-hunting culture, warrior traditions, and historic presence across the northern Great Plains of what is now the United States and Canada.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blackfoot Confederacy | 19 |
| Blackfoot canonical | 14 |
| Blackfeet Nation | 10 |
| Blackfoot people | 8 |
| Blackfeet | 7 |
| Blackfeet people | 2 |
| Siksika | 2 |
| Blackfeet Lakota | 1 |
| Blackfoot (Siksikaitsitapi) | 1 |
| Blackfoot (Siksiká) | 1 |
| Blackfoot language | 1 |
| Siksika (Blackfoot) people | 1 |
| Siksika Nation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T396864 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Blackfoot Context triple: [Great Plains, historicallyInhabitedBy, Blackfoot]
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A.
Gwich’in
Gwich’in is an Athabaskan Indigenous language spoken by the Gwich’in people of northern Alaska and northwestern Canada.
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B.
Tsimshian
Tsimshian is an Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, known for their rich maritime culture, complex social organization, and distinctive art and oral traditions.
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C.
Dene
The Dene are a group of First Nations peoples of the subarctic regions of Canada, known for their Athabaskan languages, deep land-based traditions, and long-standing presence across the northern interior.
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D.
Kaw Nation
The Kaw Nation is a federally recognized Native American tribe originally from what is now Kansas and Oklahoma, historically known as the Kanza or Kansa people.
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E.
Chinookan peoples
The Chinookan peoples are Native American groups traditionally living along the lower Columbia River and nearby Pacific coast, known for their complex plank-house villages, river-based trade networks, and rich artistic and ceremonial traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Blackfoot Target entity description: The Blackfoot are a Native American people known for their nomadic buffalo-hunting culture, warrior traditions, and historic presence across the northern Great Plains of what is now the United States and Canada.
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A.
Gwich’in
Gwich’in is an Athabaskan Indigenous language spoken by the Gwich’in people of northern Alaska and northwestern Canada.
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B.
Tsimshian
Tsimshian is an Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, known for their rich maritime culture, complex social organization, and distinctive art and oral traditions.
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C.
Dene
The Dene are a group of First Nations peoples of the subarctic regions of Canada, known for their Athabaskan languages, deep land-based traditions, and long-standing presence across the northern interior.
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D.
Kaw Nation
The Kaw Nation is a federally recognized Native American tribe originally from what is now Kansas and Oklahoma, historically known as the Kanza or Kansa people.
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E.
Chinookan peoples
The Chinookan peoples are Native American groups traditionally living along the lower Columbia River and nearby Pacific coast, known for their complex plank-house villages, river-based trade networks, and rich artistic and ceremonial traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous people of North America
ⓘ
Native American people ⓘ Plains Indians ⓘ |
| comprises |
Blackfoot
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Blackfeet Nation
Kainai Nation ⓘ Piikani Nation ⓘ Blackfoot self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Siksika Nation
|
| culturalRevitalization |
Language preservation programs
ⓘ
Revival of traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| culturalTrait |
Complex ceremonial societies
ⓘ
Sun Dance ⓘ
surface form:
Sun Dance ceremony
Use of medicine bundles ⓘ Warrior traditions ⓘ |
| enteredTreaty | Treaty 7 ⓘ |
| ethnolinguisticGroup | Algonquian peoples ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Blackfoot
ⓘ
surface form:
Blackfeet
Niitsitapi ⓘ Siksikaitsitapi ⓘ |
| hasNotableArtForms |
Beadwork
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Hide painting ⓘ Quillwork ⓘ |
| historicalActivity |
Buffalo hunting on horseback
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Intertribal warfare ⓘ Trade with other Plains tribes ⓘ |
| historicalRivals |
Assiniboine
ⓘ
Cree ⓘ Crow ⓘ Gros Ventre ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay |
Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Montana
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Blood 148 Reserve, Alberta ⓘ Piikani 147 Reserve, Alberta ⓘ Siksika 146 Reserve, Alberta ⓘ |
| region | North America ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Traditional Blackfoot spirituality ⓘ |
| socialOrganization |
Band society
ⓘ
Tribal confederacy ⓘ |
| speaksLanguage |
Algonquian language
ⓘ
Blackfoot language ⓘ |
| traditionalDwelling | Tipi ⓘ |
| traditionalEconomy |
Horse culture
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Nomadic buffalo hunting ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritory |
Great Plains
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surface form:
Northern Great Plains
What is now Alberta, Canada ⓘ What is now Montana, United States ⓘ What is now Saskatchewan, Canada ⓘ |
| treatySignedWith |
Canadian federal government (Ottawa)
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surface form:
Government of Canada
United States government ⓘ |
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Subject: Blackfoot Description of subject: The Blackfoot are a Native American people known for their nomadic buffalo-hunting culture, warrior traditions, and historic presence across the northern Great Plains of what is now the United States and Canada.
Referenced by (68)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.