Native American Peigan Indian Encampment, 1830s

The Piikani Nation or simply the Peigan (PiikCgni or Pekuni) are an Algonquian people from the North American Great Plains.They were the largest of three Blackfoot-speaking groups that made up the Blackfoot Confederacy with the Siksika and the Kainai, and dominated much of the northern plains during the 19th century. 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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