Details of Batoche Area
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Description
Negative of a map displaying details of the Batoche Area, where one of the major battles of the Northwest Resistance took place.
Historical note:
First printed in The Illustrated War News, 1885.Historical note:
The Cumberland House Cree signed an adhesion to Treaty 5 in September 1876, and a reserve was surveyed for them in 1883. This initial survey included an island (named Chief's Island) on which the chief, a councilor, and a number of the band's members resided.