The Piegan are an Algonquian-speaking people from the North American Great Plains. They were the largest of three Blackfoot-speaking groups that made up the Blackfoot Confederacy; the Siksika and Kainai were the others. The Piegan dominated much of the northern Great Plains during the nineteenth century.
How do you pronounce Piegan?
Phonetic spelling of Piegan
- p-EE-g-un.
- P-ie-gan.
- Pie-gan. Prince O'Kon.
What is the meaning of peigan?
nounplural noun Piegan, plural noun Piegans
(also Peigan) A member of a North American people of the Blackfoot confederacy. 'White Calf, one of the leaders of the southern Piegans, remembered the Blackfeet wandering around, not knowing where they were going or where they were.