McDougall had been sent to the Red River to assume the office of Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories before the actual transfer of power from the Hudson's Bay Company to the Canadian government had taken place. He was turned back by the Métis and issued this "proclamation" from Pembina, North Dakota.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 26, no. 3, 2002, pp. 1-24
Description
Examines reading and writing as separate skills; how writing enables communication to travel up the hierarchy and how historically the Southern Paiutes historically used their new writing abilities.