Mountain Chief
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Mountain Chief was a South Piegan warrior of the Blackfoot Tribe. Mountain Chief was also called Big Brave and adopted the name Frank Mountain Chief. Mountain Chief was involved in the 1870 Marias Mas
Mountain Chief at the Indian Congress of 1898
Mountain Chief (rear left) and other Piegan Blackfeet at the Indian Congress in 1898. Photograph by Frank Rinehart.
Mountain Chief listening to song being played on phonograph and interpreting it in Plains Indian Sign Language to ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore in 1916
Elk-skin robe with painted decoration by Mountain Chief
Marias Massacre
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The Marias Massacre was a massacre of Piegan Blackfeet Native peoples committed by United States Army forces under Major Eugene Mortimer Baker as part of the Indian Wars. The massacre occurred on Janu
Mountain Chief
…Blackfoot Tribe. Mountain Chief was also called Big Brave (Omach-katsi) and adopted the name Frank Mountain Chief. Mountain Chief was involved in the 1870 Marias Massacre, signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868, and worked with anthropologist Frances Densmore to interpret folksong recordings. Mountain Chief (Blackfoot/South…
Ninth from left Eugene M. Baker and group of army officers at Fort Ellis, Montana Territory 1871.