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Piegan men giving prayer to the Thunderbird near a river in Montana ...

c. 1912 ...

Photo by Roland W. Reed. Source - Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

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Regreso al hogar más seguro. Piegan (Pies Negros). Fotografía tomada por Edward S. Curtis en 1911.

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F. Winold Reiss (German-born American, 1886 - 1953), Man and Woman, Sign Talking, ca. 1929, gouache and pastel on board, Whitney Western Art Museum, Cody, Wyoming, gift of W. Tjark Reiss.

"Before the coming of the Europeans to America sign language was used to overcome the barrier posed by hundreds of distinct languages being spoken. In this painting the woman appears to use the sign for "alone" however the way in which the finger completes the motion is the final indicator of its meaning." [quote from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West]

"The Piegan (Blackfoot: Piikáni) are an Algonquian-speaking people from the North American Great Plains. They were the largest of three Blackfoot-speaking groups that made up the Blackfoot Confederacy; the Siksika and Kainai were the others. The Piegan dominated much of the northern Great Plains during the nineteenth century." [Wikipedia]

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Piegan Indian, Mountain Chief, listening to recording with ethnologist Frances Densmore

Title was formerly "Piegan Indian, Mountain Chief, having his voice recorded by ethnologist Frances Densmore," but American Folklife Center staff determined that the photo shows a playback horn on the cylinder recorder, so Mountain Chief and Densmore are listening rather than recording (12/2013). - Published in: Many nations: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska native peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office. Washington : Library of Congress, 1996, p. 271.