Crowfoot, Canadian tribal chief (born 1830)

Crowfoot

First Nations chief in Canada (1830–1890)

Crowfoot or Isapo-Muxika was a chief of the Siksika. His father, Istowun-ehʼpata, and mother, Axkahp-say-pi, were Kainai. He was five years old when Istowun-ehʼpata was killed during a raid on the Crow tribe, and, a year later, his mother remarried to Akay-nehka-simi of the…