"Chief Running Wolf and Party of Blackfoot Braves."
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Description
An image of ten Aboriginal men dressed in ceremonial regalia. Unidentified group of people in background.
Art History Thesis (M.A) -- Queen's University, 2019.
Historical note:
On 2 May 1885 Lieutenant Colonel William Otter was defeated by Poundmaker's war chief Fine-Day at the Battle of Cut Knife near Battleford, SK. A flying column of Canadian militia and army regulars was defeated by Poundmaker despite their use of a Gatling gun.Historical note:
Indigenous and Caucasian men trading furs and other items at Fort Pitt, including (left to right) Four Sky Thunder, Sky Bird, Matoose, Napasis, Big Bear, Angus McKay, Otto Dufresne, Louis Goulet, Stanley Simpson, Mr. Rowley, Alex McDonald, Captain R. B. Sletch, Mr. Edmund and Henry Dufrain.
From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.