Sioux Chief Whitecap

A head and torso portrait of Chief Whitecap of the Moose Woods Reserve, now called the Whitecap Dakota First Nation. Photo taken in Regina in 1885 after the North West Resistance. Whitecap reportedly saved the people of Saskatoon from massacre at the time of the resistance. The Dakota people under his leadership fled the U.S. Cavalry for Canada in ca. 1862.
Author/Creator
O.B. Buell
Open Access
Yes
Primary Source
Yes
Publication Date
1885
Credit
Saskatoon Public Library Local History Room, General Photographs Collection, LH-4852; records from Our Legacy site, http://scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy
First Nation, Metis, Inuit Locations
Resource Type
Images -- Photographs
Format
Image
Language
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