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Food

Buffalo was their main food source

Squirrels, nuts,berries,and steamed camas roots as part of their diet.

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Clothing

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Clothing

Women: long deerskin dresses

Men: buckskin tunics, breechcloths with leggings

Decorated with beads, elk teeth and porcupine quills

Moccasins as shoes

Wore buffalo hide robes in the winter

Chiefs wore tall headdresses

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Housing

Lived in Teepees made of buffalo hide

Easy to pack up and move

Women built the houses and had to carry the poles for the teepee when they moved

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Language
*Algonquian language family
*Siksika Blackfoot

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Economy:
*Pre-reservation: Bison
*Post-reservation: ranching, farming, leasing land

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Religion: Creation Story

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Religion
*Badger Two-Medicine is a sacred site that is used for burials and visions quests.
*Polythiestic- has many Gods
*Creation- They believed the sun was an old man. He was on a raft with different animals and sent each one into the water to go the bottom to get some mud. The Muskrat was the only one to come up with mud on his paws. The old man or “sun” dried the mud and scattered it all over the water. This made the land.

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Landform:
*Migrated through the Great Plains. This took them through grassland and the Rocky Mountains.
*Today they live on a reservation in Montana. It is covered in grassland. It is also an oil reserve and has 180 bodies of water.

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Relative Location: Great Plains, Northwest Montana
Exact location:
48°34'48.2"N 112°52'39.4"W
Reservation in Montana