Blackfoot Indian (Culture Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only B. Chown. M. Lewis.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Dave Tahija.

The year 1838 was a bad time for the Blackfoot and many other Indian Tribes. Smallpox had ridden a steamboat up the Missouri River the year before and ravaged tribes of the Northern Plains. The Blackfoot were among the hardest hit. Although no one will ever know the true extent of death suffered, certainly half the tribe perished, perhaps three quarters. By early summer of 1838, the worst of the epidemic was over. People were still dying of Smallpox but they were also prey to older forms of...