18th Annual Plains Indian Museum Pow Wow - Poster. - 1999
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Poster advertising the pow wow, held in the Robbie Pow Wow Garden of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.
Includes some discussion of Riel's trial and sentencing.
Speech made in the House of Commons.
Black and white photograph of two young Indigenous men on horseback. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Portrait of Cree Chief Piapot holding a rifle and wearing hat and scarf. Historical note:(Piapot (c.1816 - 1908) Chief of First Nations people in southern Saskatchewan in the late 1800s. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Of note: "The Prisoner's Address" by Louis Riel (begins on p. 147).