American Indians

The fierce, powerful, strong Blackfoot tribe, was located in North Dakota and South Dakota. This tribe is also known as the Siksika.

Blackfoot tribe spoke Algonquian language. They're a very religious tribe. Their religion is based on animism that encompassed the spiritual idea that the universe and all natural objects, animals, plants, trees and rivers etc, have souls or spirits.

The Blackfoot wore ankle length dresses for the woman, and they were made of buckskin. (the ski of male deer). They decorated them with beads. They also would decorate there weapons. Which were, Knives,bow and arrows, spears, lances and war clubs. They used them to kill there food. The food they ate were roots, herbs, berries and buffalo, fish and other different meat.

Did you know? That the Blackfoot tribe isn't the only tribe that believes in Animism and speaks Algonquian language and has alot of similar things like the Blackfoot tribe. The Arapaho tribe  is almost the exact same as the Blackfoot tribe.

But the Arapaho tribe is located in Red Valley, Minnesota.
They have this special type of clothing they wear. Their main materials they use to decorate their clothing is porcupine and skin for deer and the buffalo.

Every year the Arapaho and the Blackfoot tribes celebrate the Sun dance ceremony.
Both tribes also eat the same kinds of food. The Arapaho tribe eats fish, trees, meat, berries and herbs.

Arapaho tribe's chief Sharp Nose is a strong and powerful leader and the Blackfoot tribe's leader is also strong, Powerful and also tough and faithful. These are some amazing chief's within the many american Indian tribes around.

These two tribes are very powerful and have alot in common but they also have their own distinctive differences within there tribes.