John Two Guns White Calf facts for kids
John Two Guns White Calf (also known as John Two Guns and John Whitecalf Two Guns) (1872–1934) was a chief of the Piegan Blackfeet in Montana. He was born near Fort Benton, Montana and was the adopted son of Chief White Calf. After the elder White Calf died in 1902, White Calf became the last chief of the Blackfoot Tribe. He died of pneumonia at the age of 63 and is buried in a Catholic cemetery in Browning, Montana.
Promotional career
He became famous for his work promoting the Glacier National Park for the Great Northern Railway. In 1912, he travelled with several other Blackfeet to the 1912 United States Land Show in Chicago to make what was possibly the first publicity trip for the tribe. He also claimed to be the model for the profile on the Indian head nickel. However, the sculptor, James Earle Fraser, said that the image he used was a composite of several people. In 1971, Walter Wetzel created the Washington Redskins logo. He used Two Guns White Calf's image as the basis for the logo. The team used the logo until 2020.
