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Language - Glossary of Blackfoot Terms

Oki

Hello

Omahkai-stow

Raven

Omahksi-spatsi-koyii

Great Sand Hills

Ookaan

Sun dance

Otahkoi-tah-tayi

Yellow River (Yellowstone or Musselshell River)

Pis-skaan

Buffalo jump

Ponoka

Elk

Ponoka-si-sahta

Elk River (North Saskatchewan River)

Ponoka-mitta

Horse

Soa-kitapiiksi

Plains people

Sika-piksinn

Smallpox

Siksika

Blackfoot

Sootsi-maan

Par fleche or rawhide container

Soyii-tapiksi

Water beings

Spiitsii

High River, Alberta

Spomi-tapi-ksi

Above beings

Sstoyii

Winter
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