Portrait of Cree Indian women and children standing in front of shelter and tipi. Children wear beaded moccasins, girl wears necklace, boy wears decorative leggings.; Smallboy family, Cree, Butte area, Montana. Back row, l-r: Mary Smallboy; Marie Isobel (Coyote) Smallboy, wife of Peter (Pierre) Smallboy. This family lived in Montana, although Marie Isobel was from the Bobtail Band of Bearhills now known as Hobbema, Alberta before it disbanded. The family re-located back to Hobbema which is where their descendats are, as well as Smallboy Camp, Alberta. Marie Isobel's father was the famed Alberta Cree Chief Alexis Bobtail and his mother was Catherine Cardinal. Front row, l-r: Maggie Smallboy; Paul Smallboy; John Smallboy; Bobtail or Chief Robert Smallboy, leader of Smallboy's Camp. This descriptive information came from Glenbow Museum photograph NA-1431-9.
Subject (LCSH)
Cree Indians--Montana--Butte.
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955-699
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