Cut Knife

A boy standing with a memorial commemorating the Battle of Cut Knife Hill near Cut Knife, SK.

File contains a program for a ceremony commemorating the life of Chief Poundmaker. A plaque was unveiled by National Historic Sites, Canada.

Two photographs of Chadsees, an Indigenous man in western clothing subtitled "Chadsees in the Cutknife fight". In one photo he is standing beside a sign. Both are taken on prairie.

Chapter XII, "Rebellion". A summary of the events concerning the 1885 Resistance. Hawkes separates the sections into "The Fighting", "Fish Creek", "Batcoche", "Captain Howard and his Gatling Gun", "Cut Knife", "The Alberta Field Force: Frenchman's Butte", "The Ballad of the Near-Battle of Cussed Creek". The chapter includes images of the North West Mounted Police guard room, Regina Barracks, Tourand's Home, the stone house at Warman Ferry, an old house in Duck Lake, Old Mill at Duck Lake, Store at Duck Lake, the remains of the old convent at St. Laurent, "Riel's Councillors".

Unidentified man giving speech into microphone during the unveiling ceremony of the Cut Knife historic site marker.

Close-up image of plaques at Cut Knife Hill. Plaque reads: "Cut Knife Battlefield. Named after Chief Cut Knife of the Sarcee in an historic battle with the Cree. On 2nd May, 1885, Lt. Col. W.D. Otter led 325 troops composed of North West Mounted Police, "B" Battery, "C" Company, Foot Guards, Queen's Own and Battleford Rifles, against the Cree and Assiniboine under Poundmaker and Fine Day. After an engagement of six hours, the troops retreated to Battleford."

Comments on the historic rock cairn at the battle site in Cut Knife, Saskatchewan and how it was built in the wrong place.

History of Chief Poundmaker and what has become know as the Northwest Resistance of 1885.

A historic cairn commemorating the Battle of Cut Knife Hill (probably the same as detail shot in S-B6015: see S-B6015 for text of marker) flanked by two tipis, the red ensign flag, and an unveiling platform.

NWMP Constable Patrick Burke who was shot at the Battle of Cut Knife and died on May 3, 1885.

A paper apparently written by [Jennie] Moore, sister of Mrs. John Douglas, briefly describing pre-contact life and the arrival of European settlers in the Cut Knife, SK area. The paper focuses on Poundmaker and the Battle of Cut Knife Hill in March 1885. It ends with glowing descriptions of productive farm land and of the growth of the town of Cut Knife.

Riel Resistance Scroll found in Battleford in 1961. Names were intended to be placed on a memorial column in Battleford for soldiers killed in 1885.

A guide to Saskatchewan sites of historical interest related to the Northwest Resistance of 1885. It was released by the Northwest Advisory Committee and approved by the Government of Saskatchewan in the hope that it would "heighten public interest in the history of the events...and foster an expanding tourist industry." Includes many historical details of Resistance events in addition to as maps and pictures.

Wilfred Tootoosis in war paint and feathers at Cut Knife Battlefield.

Historical note:

Taken for the Western Producer magazine, July 21, 1960.