There were two different and unrelated tribal groups in North America referred to as "Blackfeet" or "Blackfoot" by white settlers.
The larger group lived (and still live) in Alberta, Saskatchewan and northern Montana. These were the Blackfoot confederation, made up of the closely-related Blood, Piegan and Blackfoot tribes. They all spoke an Algonquian language very distantly related to the languages spoken in the north-eastern States.
A much smaller group were the Blackfoot Sioux, a division of the Teton Lakotas of the Missouri river in South Dakota. They spoke the Lakota language and today they mainly live at Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota.
Just to show the differences in their respective languages, here are a few words in Algonquian Blackfoot and the equivalent in Blackfoot Lakota:
Algonquian Blackfoot .................... Blackfoot Lakota ................ English
ahkapi............................................ota.......................................many
ahmoki............................................sha......................................red
sik...................................................sapa....................................black
aapi.................................................ska......................................white
apsi.................................................wahin..................................arrow
omitaa.............................................shunka................................dog
ahkwiniman.....................................canonpa...............................pipe
stomick............................................p'ta.......................................buffalo bull
nahtoya...........................................wakan...................................sacred
ni't...................................................wanci....................................one
niisito...............................................zaptan..................................five
kiipo..................................................wikcemna.............................ten
kaiyo.................................................mahto..................................bear
ahki...................................................win......................................woman
aohkii.................................................mini.....................................water
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Siksika or Pikanii. You could also say Nitsiitapi, although really that refers to the tribe itself.
I would like to apply for Indian money from Blackfoot Indian tribe. How do I apply?
I am assuming you mean the Blackfoot peoples of Alberta, Montana and Saskatchewan, not the Blackfoot Sioux who are an unrelated and distinct tribe with a different language. Even some Native Americans do not realise that there is a difference. The Blackfoot word for the number two is natoka, pronounced nahtohka.
The Blackfoot word is minikxiw
In the Blackfoot language the word for daughter is:itan
The Stockbridge tribe was originally the Housatonic branch of the Mahicans, so the language they spoke is Mahican. Blackfoot is also an Algonquian language, but only very distantly related.In Mahican the word for grandfather is òmuxomunIn Blackfoot the word for grandfather is na-ahks'(literally "my grandfather")I guess that by "Fr. Canadian" you mean French Canadian, which is not a native language; "grandfather" in that language is grandpère.