October 1928 Calendar

During the late 1920s and early 1930s, the Great Northern issued a new calendar every month, each one featuring a Winold Reiss painting of one or more Blackfeet Indians. This painting of Morning Bird was also included in the 1940 portfolio of Reiss paintings.

Click image to download a 2.1-MB PDF of this calendar.

I can’t find the name Morning Bird in the Blackfeet geneology database. A man named Harley Morning Bird recently passed away; he was the son of Harvey Morning Bird, who was born in 1927, and Mary Margaret Vielle. I can only speculate that Harvey was the son of the Morning Bird in the painting.


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