Photographs of individual Blackfoot

[grahamew]

Bear Shield (by Anderton, Ft Walsh, ca. 78)


Black Plume, Blood (Frederick Steele, 95), The shirt and war club turn up in other Steele photos - see the Red Crow thread, for example


Bad Dried Meat/Deerfoot, a famous runner. The Deerfoot Trail through Calgary is named after him. Photo by Alex J. Ross, 85


Crow Eagle, North Piegan chief (Steele, 95)


Another Steele; same shirt: Po-Ti-Nah/Flying Chief/Joe Healy


Joe Healy in war dess (F. A. Russell, Lethbridge, ca. 86)


Brave Sword (Ross, ca, 85)


Old Sun (credited to Harry Pollard, but probably Boorne and May or Ross; ca. 85):


North Axe, North Piegan (Russell, ca. 86)


Winnipeg Jack, NWMP scout (S. J. Thompson, 1890s...)


Three Bulls, Siksika. Crowfoot's brother, ca. 1891:


Thunder Chief/Day Chief, Blood (Steele, 95):


Charcoal, Blood (Steele, 97) - note the shirt again. The leggings are probably also props, beacuse he would've been wearing prison clothes - hence the socks. The hat covers handcuffs. Other photos exist of him in prison uniform in 96; this may be his last photo before his execution in March 1897. He had killed his wife's lover and fearing execution, became a fugitive, stealing horses and food, preferring to remain in southern Alberta rather than flee to Montana; unfortunately, he also killed Sergeant Wilde of the NWMP when he tried to arrest him. He was subsequently captured and imprisoned at Fort Macleod where he was executed

[grahamew]

Mountain Chief, Piegan, by DeLancey Gill, 1903


A renowned warrior against tribal enemies like the Crow, in later life he worked with the whites in the hope of improving the lot of his people and helped General Scott with his study of sign language. In 1869, the warrior Owl Child stole some horses from the rancher Malcolm Clarke because he blamed the latter for the loss of his own horses. Clarke beat up Owl Child in front of other Blackfoot and the warrior killed him in revenge. There were calls for revenge and Owl Child fled to the camp of Mountain Chief who refused to give him up. On January 23 1870, Major Eugene Baker, unable to find Mountain Chief's village, struck the camp of Heavy Runner on the Marias River in Montana, generally considered friendly to the whites, and killed 173 (mostly women and children) and captured 140 women and children. One soldierwas killed - falling off his horse. Heavy Runner was killed running from his tipi with the American flag and papers he'd been given as a thank you for his friendship and a guarantee of his safety.

Even Clarke's son spoke out: ""... [I, H. J. Clarke], was in the Baker fight and personally knew Heavy Runner, a good Indian and a friend of the white people. His camp was practically wiped out.... Those who were not killed were left homeless and penniless. Thirteen hundred head of horses and several thousand buffalo robes were taken from the people.
"It is an undeniable fact that Col. Baker was drunk and did not know what he was doing.

"The hostile camp was Mountain Chief's, and that was the camp we meant to strike, but owing to too much excitement and confusion and misinformation, the Heavy Runner camp were the sufferers and the victims of circumstances."

There are some more accounts, from both sides, at www.dickshovel.com/parts2.html

Presumably, this is the same Owl Child or maybe a son (?), photographed at the same session as Mountain Chief by Gill in 1903:

[grahamew]

Flying Chief (Sotanah), head chief of the North Bloods; photo by Ross (erroneously credited to Harry Pollard), ca. 1885/1886


Big Loon, Blackfoot; photo by Ross, ca. 1885


Blackfoot man; photo by Ross, ca. 1885


Another Blackfoot man by Ross, ca. 1885


Immoyimi; photographed near Calgary, ca. 1885. Boorne and May?


Blackfoot man; by George W. Dawson 1881 or 1883


Joe Healy in trading pose (see post above); by J. A. Russell of Lethbridge, 1886

[grahamew]

The Dawson picture from the Glenbow archives may not be...

In the McCord Museum collection, the following photo is identified as a William Notman picture of a Cree, Kopiassiswean or Bird Skin. Same man, same session, different photo:
www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/scripts/imagedownload.php?accessNumber=VIEW-1457&Lang=1&imageID=156650&format=large

[grahamew]

This picture is from an auction site (Heritage, I think...), allegedly depicting a Sioux man taken by H T Marshe around 1880 (in present day North Dakota, if I recall). However, it's surely Immoyimi, the Blackfoot in the photo above:

[Dietmar]

Amazing photographs Grahame.

I will look through my files for some more Blackfeet photos soon.

[grahamew]

Blood Medicine Woman (Pollard; n.d. Early 1900s, unless it's one of those photos taken by someone else that he's copyrighted):


Blackfoot woman and child (Ross, 1885-90):


Bear Shield and his wife (Anderton, ca. 1878):


Old Sun and his wife (Boorne and May, ca. 1885):


Blackfoot man near Calgary, ca.1889 (William Notman):


Another Blackfoot man near Calgary, 1889 - also by Notman:


Three Bulls and wife, Siksika. Boorne and May, ca. 1885:


Bear Chief, by N. A. Forsyth, Butte, Montana (1900-05)


"Mrs Crowfoot" - Crowfoot's widow? - leaving the Siksika reserve, Cluny area, southern Alberta; 1890-1900:


Joe Healy/Flying Chief, Blood (again); F. A. Russell, Lethbridge, ca. 1886:


Blackfoot man (Ross, ca. 1885-94):


The Eagle/Little Bull, 1877-79 (Anderston at Fort Walsh??)


Blood man with settler (Anderton, Fort Macleod, 1880-83)


Constables G. B. Moffat and Fred Young with Blood Man, Ft Walsh, 1879; photo by Anderton:


North Piegan man, 1875. Sketch by Richard Barrington Nevitt:

[jinlian]

These were on sale at Cowan's and have been identified as "Stump" and "Eagle Nose" but, as my knowledge about this tribe is quite scarce, I'm all but sure about the identification.

[grahamew]

I've seen the man on the right identified by another name, but I can't find it at the minute.

Here's a D. B. Robinson sketch of Red Crow, dated between 1877-84; it looks much more like its subject than his painting of Crowfoot:



His Crowfoot, dating from the same period:


Robinson sketch of Father of Many Children or Bad Head, a Blood leader; same date:


Sketch of Rainy Chief, a Blood leader who died in 1878;by Richard Barrington Nevitt or Sydney Hall; ca. 1875-77:


Nevitt's Crowfoot; same date:


Sydney Hall's Morning Plume, Piegan (in Chief's Coat?), 1875:


Nevitt's Blackfoot warrior, ca. 75-77:


Heavy Shield in his Chief's Coat (and pants!); Nevitt, same date as above:


Calf Shirt, Blood; F. A. Russell of Lethbridge, 1886:


Kainai medicine man; n.d., but I suspect it may be just pre or post-1900:

[Dietmar]

Henri has asked me to post these images:


Blood Indian


Starchild


Weasel Calf

Bedankt Henri!

[wolfgang911]

Oct 31, 2008 4:05:22 GMT -5 grahamew said:

Mountain Chief, Piegan, by DeLancey Gill, 1903


A renowned warrior against tribal enemies like the Crow, in later life he worked with the whites in the hope of improving the lot of his people and helped General Scott with his study of sign language. In 1869, the warrior Owl Child stole some horses from the rancher Malcolm Clarke because he blamed the latter for the loss of his own horses. Clarke beat up Owl Child in front of other Blackfoot and the warrior killed him in revenge. There were calls for revenge and Owl Child fled to the camp of Mountain Chief who refused to give him up. On January 23 1870, Major Eugene Baker, unable to find Mountain Chief's village, struck the camp of Heavy Runner on the Marias River in Montana, generally considered friendly to the whites, and killed 173 (mostly women and children) and captured 140 women and children. One soldierwas killed - falling off his horse. Heavy Runner was killed running from his tipi with the American flag and papers he'd been given as a thank you for his friendship and a guarantee of his safety.

I'm not commenting much on identifying
(as I don't have a scanner + a bad memory for non-battle related names!)
but this is a mistake here :
the Mountain Chief related to the Maria River Massacre was Piegan and killed in 1872 or 1873 by Crows and I don't think there is a picture of him. The Mountain Chief above is another head chief famous more for his recording of blackfoot language then fights with the whites as was the former Mountain Chief inspiring bastard Sheridan to order Baker to hit hard.

[wolfgang911]

Oct 31, 2008 4:05:22 GMT -5 grahamew said:

Mountain Chief, Piegan, by DeLancey Gill, 1903


A renowned warrior against tribal enemies like the Crow, in later life he worked with the whites in the hope of improving the lot of his people and helped General Scott with his study of sign language. In 1869, the warrior Owl Child stole some horses from the rancher Malcolm Clarke because he blamed the latter for the loss of his own horses. Clarke beat up Owl Child in front of other Blackfoot and the warrior killed him in revenge. There were calls for revenge and Owl Child fled to the camp of Mountain Chief who refused to give him up. On January 23 1870, Major Eugene Baker, unable to find Mountain Chief's village, struck the camp of Heavy Runner on the Marias River in Montana, generally considered friendly to the whites, and killed 173 (mostly women and children) and captured 140 women and children. One soldierwas killed - falling off his horse. Heavy Runner was killed running from his tipi with the American flag and papers he'd been given as a thank you for his friendship and a guarantee of his safety.

I'm not commenting much on identifying (as I don't have a scanner + a bad memory for non battle related names!) but this is a mistake here :
the Mountain Chief related to the Maria River Massacre is not the one above. He was killed in 1872 or 1873 by Crows and I don't think there is a picture of him. He was a very important chief, resisted white invasion and famous enough to urge bastard Sheridan to send Baker after him with orders to hit hard.
The Mountain chief above was an important headchief after his death, white friendly (signing away of Glacier etc) and well known for the recording of his voice in blackfoot language.

[songofmourningdove]

Do any other photos of Rainy Chief exist?
If I am correct Rainy Chief was a signer of Treaty 7.

Any info on his family?