Fort Carlton - Newspaper clipping. - 16 May 1955.
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Newspaper clipping of image or sketch of Fort Carlton, located near Duck Lake, Saskatchewan.
Argues that the fort is a significant mythic symbol that reinforces colonial divides that continue to affect Aboriginal-Canada relations.
Historical note:
W.J. Carter was a carpenter in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (NWT).History Thesis (MA) -- University of Ottawa, 1953.
Historical note:
"Although it was not a military engagement, the incident known as the Frog Lake Massacre proved to be one of the most influential events associated with the North-West Resistance. Incited by hunger and mistreatment rather than political motives, a breakaway element of the Plains Cree murdered nine White men on the morning of April 2, 1885, in Frog Lake, North-West Territories (now Alberta).History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Vanderbildt University, 1998.
Discusses the lifeways of Indigenous peoples of Montana just prior to contact and the impact that Europeans had on them.
Chapter from Montana: Stories of the Land by Krys Holmes.