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==Piegan== *[[Earl Old Person]] (1929β2021 ), former Chief of the Blackfeet Tribe; added to the Montana Indian Hall of Fame in 2007<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cutbankpioneerpress.com/glacier_reporter/news/article_48f1db38-fbfa-50d4-b9d7-b62d8ede9035.html|title=Earl Old Person inducted into Montana Indian Hall of Fame|website=Golden Triangle News|access-date=2016-04-29}}</ref> *[[Helen P. Clarke|Helen Piotopowaka Clarke]] (1846β1923), actress, educator, and bureaucrat ; was one of the first women elected to public office in Montana *[[James Welch (writer)|James Welch]] (1940β2003), author and poet. While most of his published works were novels, he also wrote the non-fiction historical account, ''Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians''. He was one of the participants in the [[PBS]] ''American Experience'' documentary, ''Last Stand at Little Bighorn''. His award-winning novel ''[[Fools Crow]]'' is based on the Blackfeet tribe and its culture. *[[John Two Guns White Calf]] (1872β1934) was a chief who became famous while promoting the [[Glacier National Park (U.S.)|Glacier National Park]] for the [[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)|Great Northern Railway]].<ref name=Graybill>{{citation |title=The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West |author=Andrew R. Graybill |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |year=2013 |isbn=9780871404459}}</ref> *[[Stephen Graham Jones]] (1972- ), author, won a [[National Endowment for the Arts]] Fellowship and the Independent Publisher Book Award for Multicultural Fiction, and other awards. At public readings he has said that his short story "Bestiary" is not fiction.<ref>[https://horrornovelreviews.com/2013/09/24/interview-john-wisniewski-and-author-stephen-graham-jones-talk-terror-and-cinematic-influence/ Stephen Graham Jones, "Bestiary"]</ref> ===Books about the Blackfeet=== * [[George Bird Grinnell]] (1849β1938), European-American author and [[ethnologist]]; wrote accounts of the [[Blackfoot Confederacy|Blackfeet Nation]] during his travels and research as a [[conservation movement|conservationist]]; editor of ''[[Forest and Stream]]''<ref>[http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/fghij/grinnell_george_bird.html "George Bird Grinnell"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427164523/http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/fghij/grinnell_george_bird.html |date=April 27, 2009 }}, Minnesota State University, Mankato, (retrieved June 6, 2009)</ref> * [[James Willard Schultz]], or ''Apikuni'' (1859β1947), author, explorer, [[Glacier National Park (U.S.)|Glacier National Park]] guide, fur trader and historian of the [[Blackfoot Confederacy|Blackfeet Indians]]. He wrote and published 37 fiction and non-fiction books dealing with the Blackfeet, [[Kutenai Indians|Kootenai]], and [[Flathead Indians]]. His works received critical literary acclaim.<ref name=Hanna>{{cite book |last=Hanna |first=Warren L. |title=Stars over Montana-Men Who Made Glacier National Park History |publisher=Glacier Natural History Association |location=West Glacier, MT |year=1988 |isbn=9780091679064 |chapter=James Willard Schultz-The Pikuni Storyteller|pages=95β111}}</ref>
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