The Piegan (Blackfoot: Piikáni) 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. After their homelands were divided by the nations of Canada and the United States of America making boundaries between them, the Piegan people were forced to sign treaties with one of those two countries, settle in reservations on one side or the other of the border, and be enrolled in one of two government-like bodies sanctioned by North American nation-states. These two successor groups are the Blackfeet Nation, a federally recognized tribe in northwestern Montana, U.S., and the Piikani Nation, a recognized "band" in Alberta, Canada. Today many Piegan live with the Blackfeet Nation with tribal headquarters in Browning, Montana. There were 32,234 Black
Los Piegan (Blackfoot: Piikáni) son un pueblo de habla algonquina de las Grandes llanuras de América del Norte. Fueron el mayor de los tres grupos de habla negra que formaron la Confederación de Blackfoot; los Siksika y Kainai fueron los otros. Los Piegan dominaron gran parte de las Grandes llanuras del norte durante el siglo XIX. Después de que sus tierras fueron divididas por las naciones de Canadá y los Estados Unidos de América haciendo fronteras entre ellos, el pueblo de Piegan se vio obligado a firmar tratados con uno de esos dos países, asentarse en reservas en un lado u otro de la frontera, y estar inscrito en uno de dos organismos gubernamentales sancionados por los Estados de América del Norte. Estos dos grupos sucesores son la Blackfeet Nation, una tribu federalmente reconocida en el noroeste de Montana, Estados Unidos, y el Nationikani, una "band" reconocida en Alberta, Canadá.