They were matched only by the Comanche and the Crows.
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The Blackfeet (Blackfoot) tribe was composed of several closely related and allied Algonquian-speaking tribes who orginally lived in the Saskatchewan River valley of Canada.
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Most of my relatives now live in Thunder Bay or the Southwestern ends of Ontario Canada.
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When the Blackfeet set out to rid their country of the American trappers, the trappers were aided by the Crow tribe, the only ones capable of fighting the Blackfeet to a standstill.
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It was in 1837 that a small pox epidemic swept the Blackfoot village and greatly weakened them.
It was partly because of this that the Fierce Blackfoot and other Plains Indians agreed to a treaty in 1851, dividing the Great Plains among them and forbidding any one tribe from trespassing on another's hunting grounds.
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Nevertheless, the Blackfeet continued to raid the Crows and other tribes until the late 1880's when the Buffalo finally vanished.
After that, they finally took up a peaceful way of life on reservations in Montana and Alberta Canada.
