Featured Blackfoot Reservation buffalo Dance figure ID artist?

I bought this 7" guy from the Russian thrift store, of all places.
I am pretty sure it is a newer piece but thought maybe someone might know the artist. I am reading it as Ben Ottsgary?
Mikey

 

Ottagary.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22ottagary

 

Ah Shoshone. Can't find anything from Ben?
Thanks a bunch @anundverkaufen I couldn't find anything.

 

I found one, searched for Benjamin.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1246166186...-53200-19255-0&campid=5338722076&toolid=10001

 

Very prominent Shoshone family.
Direct descendants of O-T-Cot-i Shoshone shaman, Warrior.

 

I was searching the family tree but could not find a Benjamin. I did find Cecelia though. She married into the family and died in 2003 I think.
Maybe @Bakersgma can do a better job .
Mikey

 

I found him. He is the son of Cecelia Moon Ottogary.

 

The label is curious. The reservation near Ft. Hall is the Ft. Hall Indian Reservation (Shosone-Bannock). Not related to the Blackfoot reservations in Montana and Canada. There is a town of Blackfoot just outside the reservation boundary (named for the Blackfoot River, which was likely named for a battle or raid by the Blackfoot against Shoshone and/or white trappers).

 

Ben's father was apparently a Clyde Ottogary.

 

Whomever wrote the tag must have confused the town with the Reservation?

 

Maybe. But not a mistake anybody from around there would be likely to make.

 

I might take it off before I sell it. Don't want any confusion

 

For whatever it's worth, the leather and white fur look like natural materials, but the darker braids and brown hair / headdress look synthetic.

And for an observation that's worth even less (!), the wood appears to be pine and is about 40 years old-- which, for something of that relatively small size, indicates really cold winters in the last twenty years!

But I digress...

 

In the for what my experience is worth, I have found distant relatives who were NA, living in various places of the Montana/Idaho/Washington "reservations" and other communities nearby and the "white" records ascribe locations and tribal names that are also mixed up and confusing.

 

Agree. You have to research a lot of different areas to find one thing. I found This guys Mom's Obituary which mentioned him.