Francis Wall (Blackfeet) Studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Solo exhibits in Montana museums and galleries since 1998. Collections: the Westphalian State Museum of Natural History (Münster, Germany).

Francis Wall's painting Blackfeet Country combines traditional Blackfeet designs with contemporary abstract and geometric painting styles. The teepee symbolizes the home and the homeland of the Blackfeet. The vertical stripes across the painting stand for treaties with the US government that eventually placed the Blackfeet on a reservation that today comprises 4.7% of their traditional homeland. The red color of the background reinforces the artist's message about the loss of the tribe's land and the loss of the bison, an animal sacred to Plains Indians

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