Charcoal, a Blood Indian
Historical note:
Charcoal (Si'-okskitsis) was renowned for his strength and cunning as a warrior. He killed his wife's lover, fired at an Indian agent and a NWMP, and later killed a NWMP sergeant and was executed in 1897.Historical note:
Charcoal (Si'-okskitsis) was renowned for his strength and cunning as a warrior. He killed his wife's lover, fired at an Indian agent and a NWMP, and later killed a NWMP sergeant and was executed in 1897.Photograph of Father Levern and the students of residential school on Piegan Reserve near Brocket Alberta. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Image of two Indigenous children, a boy and a girl, very young taken on Cold Lake Reserve. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
A group of Indigenous peoples in western clothes taken inside of the Rectory in Hobbema Alberta. From left to right, seated and then standing: Miss Goodeye, Marie Louise Little Child, Marguerite Kanowalch-Biche, Eugenie Cardinal, Johnny Little Child. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.