Blackfoot

Welcome to the Blackfoot page, featuring materials for learning Blackfoot! Blackfoot (also known as Siksika, Pikanii, and Blackfeet), is the name of any of the Algonquian languages spoken by the Blackfoot tribe of Native Americans from the northwestern plains of North America. There are estimated to be between five and eight thousand speakers. If you have any questions or can't find what you need, please e-mail us at .

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Blackfoot Grammar
Donald G. Frantz
To help preserve the language while still in daily use, Donald G. Frantz and Norma Jean Russell collaborated on the Blackfoot Dictionary, published in 1989 to widespread acclaim. Now Frantz has produced this companion volume to the dictionary, a description and analysis of the major features of Blackfoot grammar and language structure. Intended to serve a variety of audiences, the first few chapters can be read by laypersons interested in the Blackfoot language, and provide a basis for the more intensive and technical chapters intended for the more advanced student and scholar. Included also is a list of references, an index, an appendix on verb paradigms, and one on phonological rules. Based on decades of research, Blackfoot Grammar will be welcomed not only by those who wish to learn the language, but by all those with an interest in native studies and North American linguistics.

$49.95

Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots, and Affixes
Donald G. Frantz and Norma Jean Russell
This second edition of the critically acclaimed dictionary originally published in 1989 adds more than 300 new entries and amplifies over 1000 others. The Blackfoot Dictionary is a comprehensive guide to the vocabulary of Blackfoot and contains more than 4000 Blackfoot-English entries and an English index of more than 5000 entries, with thorough coverage of cultural terms. The transcription uses an official, technically accurate alphabet and the authors have classified entries and selected examples based on more than 25 years of research.

$79.95