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The Battle of Seven Oaks: A Metis Perspective
Looks at the Battle of Seven Oaks and provides biographies of the Métis participants.
Beardy and His Chiefs, N.W. Rebellion
Bibliographical Dictionary of American Indians to 1900
Blackfeet at Earnscliffe
Chief Big Bear of the Plains Cree
Chief Poundmaker
Chief Poundmaker
Chief Red Pheasant Aiding Escape of Indian Officials
Chiefs with Lt. Gov. Dewdney
Colonel Otter Attacking the rebels at Cut Knife Hill, North-West Territory - Sketch. - 1885.
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.Cree Chiefs from Crooked Lake
The Face Pullers: Ch. 1 Images - Big Bear 1825-88
The Face Pullers: Ch.1 images - Blackfoot Chiefs en Route to Ottawa
The Face Pullers: Ch.1 Images - Chief Bobtail and Son
The Face Pullers: Ch. 1 Images - Lt. Gov. Edgar Dewdney, Piapot and Montreal Garrison Artillery
The Face Pullers: Ch. 1 Images - North-West Rebellion Participants from Both Sides
Photograph of a group of participants in the Northwest Resistance, from both sides. Left to Right: Constable Black, Louis Cochin, Inspector R.B.Deane, Alexis Andre, Beverly Robertson, Horse Child, Big Bear, Alexander Stewart, Poundmaker. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers: Ch.1 Images - Poundmaker
The Face Pullers: Ch. 2 Images - Portrait of Piapot
Portrait of Cree Chief Piapot holding a rifle and wearing hat and scarf. Historical note:(Piapot (c.1816 - 1908) Chief of First Nations people in southern Saskatchewan in the late 1800s. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Fine Day
Framing Chief Leschi: Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice
General F.D. Middleton
The Gibbet of Regina
Head and shoulders portrait of Chief Poundmaker
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend
History of King Philip, Sovereign Chief of the Wampanoags: Including the Early History of the Settlers of New England
The History of the North-West Rebellion of 1885
Images Used: Chapter 2 (A Dying Race):Portrait of Sotanah (Rainy Chief)
[Indigenous Intellectuals, Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes]
"Inspector Dickens Journal" Fort Pitt, 1885.
Historical note:
L' Insurrection du Nord-Ouest, 1885
Interior of Fort Pitt, Just [Before] the Rebellion of 1885
Kahneepotaytayo, Big Bear's Head Dancer
Letter from Middleton Demanding Poundmaker's Unconditional Surrender
Louis Riel Addressing Jury in Court House at Regina
Mississauga Portraits: Ojibwe Voices from Nineteenth-Century Canada
Nanyehi: War and Peace in Cherokee History
Newspaper Artists Impression of Riel and His Followers
“The other side of the picture”: Social History, Popular Culture, and the Idea of the Sand Creek Massacre
Postcard of Louis Riel
Poundmaker and French Journalists
Poundmaker Surrendering
Pow-wow with Chief Beardy (plumes on hat) and Chief Okamesis [after] N.W. Rebellion, 1885
The Queen vs. Louis Riel, Accused and Convicted of the Crime of High Treason: Report of Trial at Regina - Appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench Manitoba - Appeal to the Privy Council, England-Petition for Medical Examination of the Convict - List of Petitions for Commutation of Sentence
Of note: "The Prisoner's Address" by Louis Riel (begins on p. 147).
Re-collecting Black Hawk: Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest
Re-Storying Māori Legal Histories: Indigenous Articulations in Nineteenth-Century Aotearoa New Zealand
Rebellion, 1885 - Indian Chief and Red River Cart - J.W. Craig. - Sketch. - [1885?].
Rebellion, 1885 - The Daily Leader. - Regina. - Monday, 17 August 1885. - Newspaper.
The Rebellion of Half-breeds in Canada under Louis Riel - Newspaper clipping. - 9 May 1885.
Historical note:
From The Graphic, an Illustrated Newspaper.