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Portrait of Chief Crowfoot of the Blackfoot Nation
and other First Nation Chiefs

Group of First Nations chiefs. Back row, L - R: Jean L'Heureux, Crowfoots Secretary; Red Crow, Blood chief; Sergeant W. Piercy, North-West Mounted Police. Front row, L - R: Crowfoot, Blackfoot chief; Eagle Tail, minor chief of the Peigans; Three Bulls, Blackfoot. Original photograph was found among personal effects of Joseph Royal, son of Three Bulls. Photographer Bill Oliver must have retained the original and did the reproduction,which was copied by Fern Gully.

Group of First Nations chiefs. Back row, L - R: Jean L'Heureux, Crowfoots Secretary; Red Crow, Blood chief; Sergeant W. Piercy, North-West Mounted Police. Front row, L - R: Crowfoot, Blackfoot chief; Eagle Tail, minor chief of the Peigans; Three Bulls, Blackfoot. Original photograph was found among personal effects of Joseph Royal, son of Three Bulls. Photographer Bill Oliver must have retained the original and did the reproduction, which was copied by Fern Gully.

Photo courtesy of the Glenbow Archives.

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