Image of Chief Jacob Johnstone (Kah-kee-ka- pow)
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Image of Chief Jacob Johnstone (Kah-kee-ka-pow), Cree, of the Mistawasis reserve, located approximately 20 miles west of Shellbrook, Saskatchewan. Chief Jacob is standing out of doors near a log fence, and is wearing treaty medals. Johnstone was the chief of the Mistawasis reserve from 1904 to 1915. He received a fractured jaw in a Cree-Blackfoot battle at Buffalo Lake that permanently disfigured his face. Inscription on back of original postcard reads, Chief Jacob- who had his lower jaw fractured by a bullet when he refused to join Riels' rising in the west.