The Blackfoot

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

~ Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator


      The Blackfoot also known as Siksika or the Niitsitapi were Native American tribe settled in the area of Canada and Montana before white settlers came.

Blackfoot territory before White settlement

            After the white settlers came the Blackfoot were pushed into a smaller territory within Idaho and Montana and they remain there today.

Modern Day Territory 

     


History of the Blackfoot:

According to anthropologist


The blackfoot or otherwise known as the Siksika are a tribe that originally come from the territory from the North Saskatchewan river, Canada to the headstreams of missouri in Montana In modern day they live in reservations in Montana and Idaho. They get their name from the black moccasins that were believed to be discolored by the ashes and soot from fire.


The Blackfoot were the largest tribe in Montana and was split up into 3 different sub-groups: Siksika, Kaina, and Pikûna. However they all spoke the same language and each had their own different chiefs, sun dance, and council. The three groups were almost like independant tribes.

As it is known, the Blackfoot were amazing buffalo hunters. They lived in tipis and were nomadic, moving around  and not staying in a permanent location for too long. Before the 1800's they had no horses, so they had to do everything by foot including hunting. Then the settlers came and brought horses along with them which was brought into the Blackfoot's life. During the 1800's however they gathered many horses from other tribes and were then known on for having great horse herds.

The Blackfoot were known for being a very aggressive tribe and were always at war with their neighbors. They were also very aggressive to the americans.



Sources:

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/blackfeet/blackfeetindiantribe.htm

http://www.neokistomi.com/blackfeet.html

The Khoisan

The Khoisan is an African tribe that has been located in Southern Africa. They have been located in this area even before the dutch made contact there in 1652. Proof of their consistent existence is found by the language distribution and how it has changed and been influenced in that area over time.  

For awhile the Khoisan were agriculturist, but once the land grew dryer and the resources became scarce they finally resulted to being hunter-gatherers and remain to be today.

The Khoisan is split up into two groups based off of culture: the Foraging San and the Pastorai Khoi.

Modern science has taken a look at the men's Y chromosomes and found that the patterns are distinct to all the other populations. This research has helped find that the ancestry of the Khoisans may have been the fist to be different from the most recent common paternal ancestor of all extent humans. It also shows that the populations ancestry goes back some 60,000 to 90,000 years ago.

The Khoisan's physical appearance consists of a short frame with copper-brown skin, their hair is slightly coiled, high cheekbones, and epicanthic eye folds. They have pretty long legs and smaller stomachs.