Two Bear; piegan woman. As for the Piegans of today and tomorrow; we would have to be very optimistic to find hope in their present situation. The promise of a better life; which had always been made to them by civilization; was an empty shell. Photo taken from volume 6 of the encyclopedia published by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) on the Indians of North America; with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Between 1907 and 1930; 20 volumes were published.