Piegan

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• The Piegan chief White Buffalo Robe is the last Indian Schilz identifies specifically.

  Academic text (1994)

• We have a goal," said Piegan cofounder Dorothy Still Smoking, "that.

  Academic text (2004)

• As a result of this fight, one Piegan, He That Looks at the Calf, was killed.

  Academic text (2002)

• And he saw the Pikuni Piegan children, quiet and huddled together, alone and foreign in their own country" (p. 386).

  Academic text (1993)

• After spending the winter with the Piegan, Burger persuaded many of their chiefs and warriors to accompany him when he returned to Fort Union in the spring of 1831.

  Academic text (2002)

• While encamped at the head of Badger Creek, the expeditionary force was spotted by a Piegan war party, many of whom wanted to attack the intruders.

  Academic text (2002)

• By the late 1890s, missionary work had begun among the Seminole of Florida, the Mission Indians of Southern California, several tribes in Arizona, the Spokane in Washington, and the Piegan in Montana.

  Academic text (1990)

• This consensus was in part engendered by full-blood leaders of the Piegan Farming and Livestock Association, who agreed that the tribe's representative democracy, strengthened with the sovereign powers offered in the IRA, presented a good alternative to the PFLA's flawed system of participatory democracy.

  Academic text (1999)

• The Piegan people have a rich cultural heritage that includes traditional songs and dances.

• During the annual gathering, many Piegan gather to celebrate their history and share stories.

Synonyms

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Blackfoot

vsPiegan

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A person from an Indigenous group that lives on the northern Plains, mainly in Montana and Alberta

is a subgroup within that confederacy rather than the whole group

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Etymology