He was born 1848 in Southern Alberta along the
Belly River (now known as the Oldman River.) He
was a warrior against the Crows, Gros Ventres and
Kootennais. He was the last hereditary chief of the
Blackfoot. In 1886 he signed a treaty ceding Blackfoot
lands east of the Sweet Grass Hills in Montana to the
federal government and in 1895 he ceded the present
Glacier National Park.

In the 1920's he became a government public figure
in Washington D.C. and the West informant on Plains
Indian sign language.

He died in 1942.

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