Crowfoot was born around 1830 near the Belly river in southern Alberta into the Blood tribe of the Blackfoot Confederacy, with the name "Astohkomi" or "Shot Close". After a raid on a Crow camp when he was a teenager he was given a hero's name, "Isapo-muxica" or "Crowfoot".
Crowfoot was a warrior who fought in as many as 19 battles and sustained many injuries. Despite this, he tried to obtain peace instead of tribal warfare. When the Canadian Pacific Railway sought to build their mainline through Blackfoot territory, negotiations with Father Albert Lacombe convinced Crowfoot that it should be allowed.
He died on April 25th, 1890, at Blackfoot Crossing, of tuberculosis.
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