Native American Gros Ventre Indian Encampment, 1832

The Gros Ventre are a historically Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe located in north central Montana. In 1832, the Gros Ventres made contact with the German explorer and naturalist, Prince Maximilian. Along with the naturalist painter Karl Bodmer, the Europeans painted portraits and recorded their meeting with the Gros Ventres, near the Missouri River in Montana. The Gros Ventres joined the Blackfoot Confederacy. After allying with the Blackfoot, the Gros Ventres moved to north-central Montana and southern Canada. Voyage dans l'interieur de l'Amerique du Nord, execute pendant les annees 1832-34. Karl Bodmer (February 11, 1809 - October 30, 1893) was a Swiss printmaker, lithographer, painter, illustrator and hunter. He accompanied the German explorer Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied on his Missouri River expedition. Bodmer was hired as an artist to record images of cities, rivers, towns and peoples they saw along the way, including the many tribes of Native Americans along the Missouri River and in that region

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1832 Algonquian Blackfeet Blackfoot Bodmer Confederacy Encampment Ethnography Gros Maximilian Missouri Montana Niitsitapi Salvage Siksikaitsitapi Ventre Wied-neuweid Wied-neuwied

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