Each Indian tribe had their own word to mean the Blackfoot Tribe. Here is a list of a few of the names given the Blackfoot by other Indian tribes:
Here are the names given the Blackfoot by other Indian tribes:
Arapaho name: Wateni’hte or Ka-wi-‘na-han, signifying “black people.”
Arikara name: Choch-Katit
Cheyenne name: Po’-o-mas, , signifying “blankets whitened with earth.”
Chippewa name: Ayatchinini or Makadewana-ssidok
Comanche name: Tuhu’vti-ómokat
Cree name: Ayatchiyiniw, signifying “stranger,” or “enemy.”
Crow name: Carmeneh or Ish-te-pit’-e
So given by Dobbs (1744): Beaux Hommes
Fox name: Mämakatä’wana-si’tä’-ak
Hidatsa name: I tsi sí pi sa, signifying “black feet.”
Kalispel name: S’chkoé, or S’chkoeishin, from koài, meaning “black.”
Kansa name: Sicä’bê
Kiowa name: Toñkoñko, signifying “black legs.”
Kutenai name: Saha’ntla, signifying “bad people.”
Okanogan name: Stxuaíxn, signifying “black.”
Ottawa name: Mukkudda Ozitunnug
Salish name: Skuäísheni, signifying “black foot.”
Sarsi name: Katce
Shawnee name: Mkatewetitéta
Shoshoni name: Pah-kee
Yankton Dakota name: Si-ha’-sa-pa, signifying “black foot.”
Names the Blackfoot called themselves:
The Kainai First Nation called themselves Ah-hi’-ta-pe, which means “blood people.”
The Blackfoot Confederacy called themselves collectively the Netsepoyè, meaning “people who speak our language.”
The Blackfoot also referred to themselves as Sawketakix, meaning “men of the plains.”