Blackfoot Indians

By: Emee

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

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

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

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 buffalo fat to make pemmican meat • They ate the meat dried and fresh.

• They mixed the dried meat with wild berries and

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 belts , bags, and

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 passage cook, prepare buffalo hides, and do bead and quill work • Both boys and girls went through a rite of