The Fight at Duck Lake
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Description
Negative of an artists representation of the fight at Duck Lake, featuring indigenous peoples in romanticized traditional costume holding guns.
Includes text and images.
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Introduction and two archival items discuss the CCF's attempt to create a province-wide organization know as the Saskatchewan Indian Federation. Both letters protest the government's interference in affairs that were viewed as none of their concern. From special issue: Native Peoples, Museums, and Heritage Resource Management.
Notes and sketches from a trip taken by John Franklin Boyd in July and August, 1885, from Minnedosa, Manitoba to visit Prince Albert and the places involved in the North-West Rebellion.
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Charles Arkoll Boulton (b. 17 April 1841 - d. 15 May 1899) is noted for his role in the Red River and North-West Resistances.Historical note:
Lieutenant Colonel Bowen Van Straubenzie was involved in the Battle of Batoche.Historical note:
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First printed in The Illustrated War News, 1885.