Piapot

Piapot, (c.1816 ? 1908) a Chief of First Nations people in southern Saskatchewan in the late 1800s. His name ?Payepot? means Hole-in-the-Sioux. He became a well known leader, diplomat, warrior, horse thief, and spiritualist.

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He was born to a Cree mother and an Assiniboine father in 1816. Shortly after his birth his parents died of smallpox. He then lived with his grandmother. They were captured by a party of the Sioux when he was a small boy. He and his grandmother lived among the Sioux until he was about 14 years old at which time they were freed by a Plains Cree war party.

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