November, 1932 Calendar

This is Morning Gun, who was apparently not a close relation to Morning Star. There is more than one Morning Gun in the Blackfeet geneology, but I suspect this one was born in either 1858 or 1861.

Click image to download a 1.5-MB PDF of this calendar. The PDF includes the calendar portion that is omitted from the above image.

Around 1890, the Blackfeet began to use the names of their fathers as the last names for many of their children. The Morning Gun born in 1861 fathered 15 children, most of whom used Morning Gun as their last name (and the exceptions were probably ones who died in infancy). The 1861 Morning Gun was married to Otter Woman, while the 1858 Morning Gun was married to Double Catch and they only had three or four children.


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