What type housing did the blackfoot people live in?

Answer 1

All the Blackfoot tribes lived in tipi-style lodges called oyis in Blackfoot. Some tipis were painted with designs typical of this group of tribes, using mainly red and black paint - a band of colour (red, for example) around the lower edge might have a row of white circles representing puffball mushrooms (symbolising fallen stars), while another band of colour (such as black) was painted at the top. In between might be figures of animals.

The link below takes you to an image of a modern reconstruction of a Blackfoot lodge:

Answer 2

Buffalo-hide tepees was their housing made up of 3-4 main wooden poles for structure and 10-11 other wooden poles for support with a hole on top to let the hearth's smoke escape from. It was carefully designed to set up and break down quickly; like a modern tent; for these Blackfoot Indians were fully nomadic people because where ever the buffalo/bison migrated, the Indians would follow since the bison were their main diet, and pretty much their main resource, too. They are also known as "Buffalo Herders" because of this. Since the Blackfoot tribe had tepees like this, an entire village of these Indians would be ready to move within one hour.

Answer 3

Blackfoot lodges were virtually the same as Sioux tipis, but were called "moyis", the Blackfoot word for any kind of dwelling place.

A distinguishing feature of Blackfoot lodges was the distinctive painted designs, which were unlike those of other Plains tribes. Colours used were most often red and black; there would be a broad band of colour (red for example) around the lower edge of the lodge, with a series of white disks (either one or two rows) left unpainted. The upper part would also have a broad horizontal band of colour (black, for example).

Between these two bands of colour you would often see animals depicted: buffalo, elk, snakes, bears and so on, usually with their internal organs picked out in contrasting colours. The white disks represented puffball mushrooms, commonly found on the northern Plains - these were considered sacred by the Blackfoot tribes and symbolised stars that had fallen from the sky, hence their use as a kind of magical element in the decoration.

As in most of the Plains tribes, young girls would be given a small-scale "toy" moyis to play with; it was constructed in exactly the same way as a full-sized one and the idea was to teach the girl how to sew together buffalo skins to cover the lodge, how to erect the poles and fix together the overlapping front with sharp wooden pins. This ensured that she would be able to tackle the real thing later in her life.

Answer 4

Blackfoot are a branch of the Sioux Indians.They used to live in houses called tepees/tipi.Their tepees were different from those of other tribes because when the tepee was being built they would use 4 primary poles when setting it up while other tribes used 3 primary poles.

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Answer: While it is true that small sub-tribe of the Lakota Sioux are today called Blackfoot (Siha sapa), the same name is also given to a totally unrelated Algonquian people living in northern Montana, Saskatchewan and Manitoba - the extremely large Blackfoot federation (Siksika), consisting of the Blood, Piegan and Blackfoot tribes and their allies the Sarcis and Gros Ventres (also called Atsina).

These more numerous northern Blackfoot also used tipi-style lodges, called moyis in Blackfoot; these used four primary poles against which the other poles were laid, before the buffalo-hide cover was wrapped around and fixed down the front with large wooden pins. These covers were often painted in distinctive Blackfoot designs, completely unlike those of the Lakota Blackfoot.

See links below for images of Siksika Blackfoot (not Blackfoot Sioux) lodges:

Answer 5

they was in the navy to war so they killed each other

Answer 6

Mostly there houses were inside holes in the ground

Answer 7

The Blackfoot used tepees for shelter. They were tall and made out of leather. They dug

fire pits and painted pictures on the sides.

Answer 8

a penis house