#piegan

[littlefeather-wolf]

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.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Dress

Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan) People

c.1850

National Museum of the American Indian (Catalog Number: 10/8454)

Learn more about the Pikuni Blackfeet at their website: https://blackfeetnation.com/

[punk-antisystem]

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

[jadeseadragon]

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]

[theamericanparlor]

Three Piegan (Blackfeet) Chiefs

Albumen print. 1900

The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis. These images were published between 1907 and 1930.

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Piegan man, 1900.

[nativeskins]

Running Eagle was a warrior woman from the Piegan Tribe of the Blackfoot Nation. She was born as “Pitamakan” in Southern Alberta, Canada, and her nickname was “Brown Weasel Woman”.

She was known for many brave deeds; when she was a young girl, hunting with her father, they were attacked by the Assiniboine and her father’s horse was shot down.

She rode back, took her father on her horse and saved his life.

Later in her life, her husband was killed by some Crow Warriors. She decided to avenge him and became a Blackfeet warrior.

Allegedly, the Sun Spirit told her that she would have great power in wars until she restrains herself from sexual relations with another man. She had many successful raids after this revelation, up until she was intimate with a man from her party.

Soon after that, she lost her power and ultimately, her life. Running Eagle was killed sometime after 1878, by the Flathead tribe while stealing horses for a battle.

[theamericanparlor]

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.