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==Notable Blackfoot people== [[File:Chief Crowfoot.jpg|thumb|Chief [[Crowfoot]].]] * [[Eugene Brave Rock]], actor, stuntman, and activist * [[Elouise Cobell]], banker and activist who led the 20th-century lawsuit that forced the US Government to reform individual Indian trusts * [[Byron Chief-Moon]], performer and choreographer * [[Crowfoot]] (''ISAPO-MUXIKA'' β "Crow Indian's Big Foot", also known in French as ''Pied de Corbeau''), Chief of the Big Pipes band (later renamed ''Moccasin band'', a splinter band of the Biters band), Head Chief of the South Siksika, by 1870 one of three Head Chiefs of the Siksika or the Blackfoot proper * [[Aatsista-Mahkan]] ("Running Rabbit", * about 1833 β d. January 1911), since 1871 Chief of the Biters band (''Ai-sik'-stuk-iks'') of the Siksika, signed Treaty No.7 in 1877, along with Crowfoot, Old Sun, Red Crow, and other leaders * [[A-ca-oo-mah-ca-ye]] (''Ac ko mok ki'', ''Ak ko mock ki'', ''A'kow-muk-ai'' β "Feathers", since he took the name ''Old Swan''), since about 1820 Chief of the Old Feathers' band, his personal following was known as the Bad Guns band, consisted of about 400 persons, along with Old Sun and [[Three Suns]] (''No-okskatos'') one of three Head Chiefs of the Siksika * [[Buffalo Bull's Back Fat|Stu-mick-o-sΓΊcks]] ("Buffalo Bull's Back Fat"), Head Chief of the Kainai, had his portrait painted at Fort Union in 1832 * [[Faye HeavyShield]], Kainai sculptor and installation artist * [[Joe Hipp]], Heavyweight boxer, the first Native American to compete for the WBA World Heavyweight Title.<ref>[http://www.native-languages.org/blackfoot_culture.htm "Blackfoot Culture and History"]. ''Native Languages''. Retrieved 26 August 2011.</ref>{{Failed verification|date=July 2012}} * [[Beverly Hungry Wolf]], author * [[Stephen Graham Jones]], author * [[Earl Old Person]] (Cold Wind or Changing Home), Blackfoot tribal chairman from 1964 to 2008 and honorary lifetime chief of the Blackfoot * [[Jerry Potts]] (1840β1896), (also known as ''Ky-yo-kosi'' β "Bear Child"), was a Canadian-American plainsman, buffalo hunter, horse trader, interpreter, and scout of Kainai-Scottish descent. He identified as Piegan and became a minor Kainai chief. * [[Steve Reevis]], actor who appeared in ''[[Fargo (1996 film)|Fargo]],'' ''[[Dances with Wolves]],'' ''[[Last of the Dogmen]]'', ''[[Comanche Moon]]'' and many other films and TV.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nativenetworks.si.edu/eng/rose/reevis_s.htm|title=Film & Media β National Museum of the American Indian|access-date=29 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911044238/http://nativenetworks.si.edu/eng/rose/reevis_s.htm|archive-date=11 September 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/section/movies|title=Movies|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> * [[Misty Upham]] (1982β2014), actress<ref>Schmidt, Rob. [http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/30/misty-upham-reflects-filming-jimmy-p-benicio-del-toro-151514 "Blackfeet Actress Misty Upham On Filming 'Jimmy P.' with Benicio Del Toro"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015191815/http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/30/misty-upham-reflects-filming-jimmy-p-benicio-del-toro-151514 |date=15 October 2014 }}, ''[[Indian Country Today Media Network]]''. 30 September 2013. Accessed 1 February 2014.</ref> * [[James Welch (writer)|James Welch]] (1940β2003), Blackfoot-Gros Ventre author * The Honourable [[Eugene Creighton]], judge of the Provincial Court of Alberta. *[[Gyasi Ross]], author, attorney, musician and political activist. *[[Lily Gladstone]], actress, who is part Blackfoot and [[Nez Perce]]
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