Tom Three Persons

Tom Three Persons (March 19, 1888 – August 13, 1949) was a Niitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy) rodeo athlete and rancher and a member of the Kainai Nation (Blood).

[1] Tom Three Persons was born on March 19, 1888, to Double Talker (Ayakonhtseniki) a Kainai (Blood) woman, and Fred Pace, a white trader and bootlegger.

Guy Weadick, the promoter of the first Calgary Stampede, sought to secure the best cowboys for the rodeo events.

Hyde, the Indian Agent wrote to Weadick endorsing Three Persons’ entry in the two bucking horse contests.

[2] Tom Three Persons, although living under the restrictive Canadian laws governing Indigenous peoples, was well known in southern Alberta as a rancher on the Blood Reserve.