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The Piegan (Blackfoot: ᑯᖱᖿᖹ Piikáni) are an Algonquian-speaking people from the North American Great Plains. They are the largest of three Blackfoot-speaking groups that make up the Blackfoot Confederacy; the Siksika and Kainai are the others. The Piegan dominated much of the northern Great Plains during the nineteenth century.
The Blackfoot Confederacy, Niitsitapi, or Siksikaitsitapi [1] (ᖹᐟᒧᐧᒣᑯ, meaning "the people" or "Blackfoot-speaking real people" [a]), is a historic collective name for linguistically related groups that make up the Blackfoot or Blackfeet people: the Siksika ("Blackfoot"), the Kainai or Blood ("Many Chiefs"), and two sections of the Peigan or Piikani ("Splotchy Robe") – the ...
For people who are enrolled in a Piegan Blackfoot tribe or First Nation, see Category:Piegan Blackfeet people. Pages in category "American people of Piegan Blackfoot descent" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Blackfeet Indian Reservation, looking at the mountains of Glacier National Park. The 2010 census reported a population of 10,405 living on the reservation lands. [8] The population density is 3.47 people per square mile (1.34 people/km 2). The Blackfeet Nation has 16,500 enrolled members.
The Marias Massacre (also known as the Baker Massacre or the Piegan Massacre) was a massacre of Piegan Blackfeet Native peoples which was committed by United States Army forces under Major Eugene Mortimer Baker as part of the Indian Wars. The massacre occurred on January 23, 1870, in Montana Territory. Approximately 200 Native people were ...
Jun. 18—Tribal leaders are again enforcing a decades-old closure of Chief Mountain after recent tourist activity disturbed cultural and spiritual practices there. The Blackfeet Tribal Historic ...
Gladstone—who is of Piegan Blackfeet, Nez Perce and European descent—lived with her family on the Blackfeet Nation reservation in Browning, Montana, until she was 11 years old.
Mountain Chief (Blackfoot/South Piegan) was born around 1848 at Oldman River in Alberta, Canada (then British North America). [2] Mountain Chief was the son of Mountain Chief and Charging Across Quartering. [1] Mountain Chief's father, also known as Butte Bull and Bear Cutting, was a South Piegan chief and the son of Kicking Woman and Chief ...