Take off your shoes. If any of your toes or foot is “black”, then you are a Blackfoot, or you have gangrene.
Back off, you murderous shoe wearing Apache wannabee!(LOL)
My grandmother never told me why our ancestors were called Blackfoot...I’m guessing it had something to do with why so few survived the genocides and purges.
Too few were left to merit a treaty for our tribe.
It was hinted that they mostly all died, and so few warriors were left to defend those of our tribe, that other tribes offered shelter as a mercy that was a new concept to any of the tribes.
But that could have been a lie, since she married a half breed Cherokee from an Oklahoma reservation as a second husband.
My grandmother moved her children far and away from the reservations.
Looking back,I think she made the right choice.