Bomb Threat Disrupts Chiefs Return
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Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 5, no. 11, June 30, 1975, p. 8
Description
Return charter flight for Saskatchewan Chiefs was delayed due to a bomb scare.
Discussion on educational border work and the struggle for control of education between First Nations and Canadian society.
Historical note:
On 2 May 1885 Lieutenant Colonel William Otter was defeated by Poundmaker's war chief Fine-Day at the Battle of Cut Knife near Battleford, SK. A flying column of Canadian militia and army regulars was defeated by Poundmaker despite their use of a Gatling gun.Looks at one way to cross the cultural boundary in Aboriginal literature by examining the purpose of author Maria Campbell, in Halfbreed, Beatrice Culleton, in In Search of April Raintree, and Lee Maracle, in I Am Woman.