Blackfoot Vs. Blackfeet ....

[BrokenSword]

Tricia - "...You got Indian relatives in Arizona, you don't know what you got in you!..."

Yep. I've been told that from Central Mississippi south to the Gulf, if I just call anyone I run into 'cousin' I won't be far from right.

I do remember the Bassomatic. It dates from a time when I was young enough to stay up late enough to see it demonstrated.

M

[BrokenSword]

Tricia-

The Creek Indian tradition is that they are descendants of a great tribe of warriors from (present day) Mexico who were allied with the Aztec Empire. After Cortez destroyed the Aztec Empire, they migrated/fled north and east, settling in the southeast of the (present day) USA and subduing the other tribes living there.

There were four great clans who shared leadership and power on a rotating basis. My particular ancestor, named ‘Sehoy,’ was a daughter of the ‘Wind Clan’ (no jokes please). Her father was the headsman of the clan.

SOOOOO --

Since there is ‘Mexican’ in your family and mine, I can now add you to my ever expanding cast of cousins!

The United Nations of Tricia, cousin to Blended Slicendice of the Wind.

M

[Tricia]

You, me and Crab. The cousins of the board! And if Diane is really lucky, I'll find a way to allow her to be a cousin, too! Heck, my Injun family's history was very odd--half were overacheivers, the other half were alcoholics. And of course, Chee Dodge either kidnapped or married an entire bevy of sisters, but he was an overacheiver and an alcoholic!

[ladonna]

The Sihasapa or "Blackfoot Sioux" are a division of the Titonwan, or Teton (also known as Lakota) Sioux. Sihasapa is the Lakota word for "Blackfoot


The Blackfeet (Pikuni) belong to what is called the "Blackfoot Confederacy" where three other Tribes reside in Canada that make up this confederacy; North Peigan/pikuni, Blood/Kainai and Blackfoot/Siksika.


The Saponi were once called “Eastern Blackfoot”.
In historical documents where the term “Blackfoot” was used.
Dagsboro (spelling unsure) on the Md/De border was called “Blacfoot Town” in its earliest days. There is a church in the southernmost parts of Indiana called “Blackfoot Church“, organized in the 1790s. A placque on the church grounds said old timers had said that it was named after a local tribe of Indians. These are the 2 documented cases where the term "Blacfoot" is used wrt possible Indian communities.
Problem is the Saponi did NOT live on the Maryland/Delaware border. They also did NOT live in Southern Indiana! BUT -- the Nanticoke DID live on the Maryland/Delaware border when Dagsboro was called Blackfoot Town, and historical documentation says some Nanticoke migrated west with the Delaware. There is a map of the Indians of Indiana about 1810 and the Nanticoke are shown with a village in central Indiana, surrounded by Delaware. There are also Delaware, Shawnee and Miami communities found on the southern tip of Indiana, near where that church was located.
If there ever were a small community of Indians called “Eastern Blackfoot” it might have been Nanticoke -- just speculation. There are many people East of the Mississippi who claim their ancestors said they were “Blackfoot” Indians. Many people also claim to be Cherokee in the same geographical region. A band of Saponi Indians remained behind in North Carolina which seems to have fused with the Tuscarora, Meherrin, and Machapunga and gone north with them in 1802. What this means in essence is that the Saponi Tribe does not exist anymore

These three nations are NOT related to each other and don't speak the same lanaguage.

The last one one called Blackfeet Cherokee are on the fraud list because they was never a group of people who were cherokee blackfeet. There is a large group out east who used the term Blackfeet Cherokee as a reference to people who have black blood.