| 释义 |
Piegan, a. and n.|ˈpiːgən|
Also 8 Paegon, 9 Pagon, Peegan; 20 Peigan.
[ad. Blackfoot piikániwa Piegan.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to a North American Indian people of the Blackfoot confederacy, inhabiting the Rocky Mountain region of Alberta and Montana.
B. n. (A member of) this people.
Peigan is the form preferred by the Indians themselves, and is that used officially by the Canadian government and by others in Canada.
1790E. Umfreville Present State of Hudson's Bay 200 The Black-foot, Paegan, and Blood Indians. These Indians, though divided into three tribes, are all one nation, speak the same language, and abide by the same laws and customs. c1812D. Thompson in A. W. Bowers's Hidatsa Social & Ceremonial Organiz. (1965) 301 Another band of these people now dwell in tents near the head of this River..in alliance with the Peegans and their allies. 1868N.Y. Herald 29 July 5/2 The Gros-Ventres have agreed..to keep peace with the whites and all the Indian tribes save the Pagons and Blackfeet. 1871Congress. Globe 41st Congress 3 Sess. App. 68/1 Here, sir..I find within a convenient distance the Piegan Indians, which, of all the many accessories to the glory of Duluth, I consider by far the most inestimable. 1907J. W. Schultz My Life as Indian i. 8 Several hundred lodges of Piegans. 1910F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 246/2 In 1858 the Piegan in the United States were estimated to number 3,700. 1938M. Thompson High Trails of Glacier Nat. Park 104 Roes Basin, a corruption of Rose Basin, the name Grinnell bestowed in honor of his hunting companion, Charles Rose, a half-breed Piegan Indian. 1949Natural Hist. May 195/2 The Blackfoot Confederacy includes, beside the Blood, the South and North Piegans and the Northern Blackfoot tribes. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia II. 60 (caption) In a Piegan lodge. 1988Los Angeles Times 10 Jan. vii. 6/1 There are five Native tribes still living on the outskirts of Calgary: the Blackfoot, Blood, Peigan, Stoney and Sarcee. |