Piapot, a Cree Indian, was born in 1816. His parents
died of smallpox. He and his grandmother with whom
he lived were captured by the Sioux Indians and
lived with them for 14 years until freed by a Plains
Cree war party. The knowlege he obtained from the
Sioux helped him to become a Cree war chief against
other tribes.

In 1870 Piapot and his Cree warriors were defeated
by the Blackfoot at the last major inter-Indian Battle
near Fort Whoop-up in the North West Territories
now known as Southern Alberta.

In 1875 he finally signed Canadian Treaty No. 5
ceding lands in Qutappelle Valley, Manitoba. He
moved his band west to what is now Saskatchewan.

Piapot led his band in an act of resistance against
the railroad and the whites coming into Cree lands,
by pulling up stakes and placing teepees in the path
of track-layers.

He settled near Regina. He and his warriors did not
participate in the 1885 Second Riel Rebellion. When
his people held an unlawful Sun Dance Piapot was
deposed by Canadian officials.

However his band continued to abide by his authority.
In 1901 Manitoba officials paid homage to him. He
died in 1908.

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