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[[Image:Crowfoot.jpg|thumb|right|Crowfoot in 1887]]
'''Crowfoot''' (c. 1830 – [[25 April]] [[1890]]) or '''Isapo-Muxika''' ([[Blackfoot language|Blackfoot]] ''Issapóómahksika'', "Crow-big-foot"<ref>[http://people.uleth.ca/~frantz/blkft.html#WritingSystems blkft.html<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>) was a chief of the [[Blackfoot]] [[First Nation#Geographic distribution#Plains|First Nation]] in [[Canada]]
Crowfoot was born in 1830 in what would become the province of [[Alberta]]. His parents were Packs a Knife (Istowun-eh'pata) and Attacked Towards Home (Axkahp-say-pi). His brother Iron Shield became Chief Bull. His mother remarried to Many Names when Packs a Knife was killed during a raid on the Crow tirbe.
Crowfoot was a warrior who fought in as many as nineteen battles and sustained many injuries. Despite this, he tried to obtain peace instead of tribal warfare. When the [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] sought to build their mainline through Blackfoot territory, negotiations with Father Lacombe convinced Crowfoot that it should be allowed.
In 1877 Colonel [[James Macleod]] and Lieutenant-Governor [[David Liard]] drew up [[Treaty Number 7]] and persuaded Crowfoot and other chiefs to sign it. [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] President [[William Van Horne]] gave Crowfoot a lifetime pass to ride on the CPR out of gratitude.
Though he was well respected for his bravery, Crowfoot refused to join the [[North-West Rebellion]] of 1885, believing it to be a lost cause. In 1886, Prime Minister Sir [[John A. Macdonald]] invited Crowfoot to [[Ottawa]]. Crowfoot went, as did [[Three Bulls]] and [[Red Crow]], but soon fell ill and had to return from Ottawa.
Crowfoot died of [[tuberculosis]] at [[Blackfoot Crossing]] on [[April 25]], [[1890]].
== External links ==
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* [http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=39726 Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online'']
* [http://www.angelfire.com/ar/waakomimm/crowfoot.html Crowfoot]
== Footnotes ==
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== Literature ==
* Hugh A. Dempsey, ''Crowfoot: Chief of the Blackfeet'', University of Oklahoma Press 1980, ISBN 0-8061-1596-3
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