Notes+BLC

=Question What happened when Lewis and Clark encountered the Blackfeet Indians?=


 * //Answer _ They tried to make peace with them//**

__Detail 1__ Lewis tried to make peace with the Blackfeet by promising to give them guns and other gifts

__Detail 2__ They told the Blackfeet that they gave these to the Shoshones and Nez Perces, who were mortal enemies of the Blackfeet. They thought that this was an act of hostility from the Americans.

__Detail 3__ In the middle of the night, the Blackfeet tried to steal guns and horses from Lewis and Clark

__Detail 4__ This resulted in the killing of two of the Blackfeet warriors

__Detail 5__ [|on the morning of the 27th the party catches the Blackfeet attempting to steal their horses and guns. During a fight two of the Blackfeet were killed.]

__Detail 6__ the Blackfeet warriors thought that the Americans (Lewis + Clark's Expedition group) were a threat

__Detail 7__ [|The Blackfeet's territorial dominance, however, relied on those tribes being unarmed. The Blackfeet warriors saw this action as direct hostility from the Americans.]

__Detail 8__ The people who killed to blackfeet were Lewis and Reuben Field

=**__Question__ How did the encounter occur?**=


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Detail 1 they had met the Nez Perces right before they encountered the Blackfeet. They thought they were the most hospitable on the voyage

Detail 2 They broke into groups and explored the area of the Louisiana territory and lewis and his group were the ones who came across the eight Blackfeet warriors.

Detail 3 They were invited back to the camp to stay the night.

Detail 4 Lewis and the other members of the group found them trying to steal the guns and horses

Detail 5 [|one Indian was shot another was stabbed to death]

=**Question** _ What was their life like before Lewis and Clark=

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__Detail 1__ They were on of the most powerful tribes in the region

__Detail 2__ They [|controlled a huge expanse of the northeastern Great Plains, from the upper Missouri River in what is now Montana to the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta.]

__Detail 3__ The Blackfeet were split into groups called the Siksika, the Piegan, and the Kainah, or Blood

__Detail 4__ _ The Blackfoot lived in buffalo-hide houses called **//tipis//**

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