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Brackenridge, in his “‘ Voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811,”* merely alludes to the 
Blackfeet. ‘“'They wander on the heads of the Missouri, Maria River, and along the 
Rocky Mountains; they are also Sioux. ‘They trade at the same establishments with the 
Assiniboins, and are at war with the Crow nation. They have been very troublesome to 
our traders, to whom they have conceived a deadly hatred. ‘Their country the most 
abundant in beaver and other furs.” 
Mr. Morse, in 1822, speaks of the Blackfeet as inhabiting the headwaters of the Mis- 
sourl, of whom very little is known.t 
In the Transactions of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. II, Mr. Gallatin has 
summed up in the most'able manner, all the knowledge that had been previously obtained 
in regard to the Blackfoot nation, and their language. Mx. Gallatin’s memoir was pub- 
lished in 1836, and at that time, he says: ‘‘ We have as yet no other vocabulary of those 
two nations (Blackfeet and Gros Ventres of the prairie), and of the Assiniboins, but the 
scanty one of Umfreville. It is sufficient, however, to show that the Assiniboins are, as 
they have been uniformly stated, a branch of the Sioux family, and that the languages of 
the Rapid Indians and of the Blackfeet are distinct from each other, and different from 
any other known to us.” 
Again, in 1848,{ Mr. Gallatin published a second memoir on the American Aboriginal 
Languages, in which he proves most conclusively the affinity of the Blackfoot language 
with the Algonkin stock. Out of 180 words of which the vocabulary was composed, 54 
have clear affinities. ‘The vocabulary, as well as much information in regard to the Upper 
Missouri tribes, was furnished to Mr. Gallatin by Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie, an intelligent 
Scotchman, and for many years one of the principal partners of the American Fur Com- 
pany, in charge of Fort Union, at the mouth of the Yellowstone. 
A vocabulary of the Blackfoot language is published in Vol. VII of the United States 
Exploring Expedition, Ethnography and Philology, by Horatio Hale, Philadelphia, 1846. 
From what source Mr. Hale obtained this vocabulary, I could not ascertain. 
Ina work by George Catlin, ‘‘ Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Con- 
dition of the North American Indians,” London, 1841, 2 vols. 8vo., may be found a very 
good vocabulary of the language under consideration, and it is remarkable as being the 
second one ever published of these Indians. Mr. Catlin did not visit the Blackfoot coun- 
try, however, inasmuch as he did not ascend the Missouri higher than the mouth of the 
Yellowstone. ‘The Blackfeet not unfrequently visited this post in former times for trading 
or marauding purposes. 
* Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811, by H. M. Brackenridge, sq. Pittsburg, 1814. 
+ Report to the Secretary of War on Indian Affairs, by Rev. J. Morse, D.D. New Haven, 1822. 
{ Transactions of the American Hthnological Society, Vol. Il. New York, 1848. 
