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An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket and His People, 1750-1830
All Our Relations: Native Struggles For Land and Life
Beardy and His Chiefs, N.W. Rebellion
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.Contesting Civilization: Louis Riel's Defence of Culture at the Collége de Montréal
Cree Chiefs from Crooked Lake
Criminal Empire: The Making of the Savage in a Lawless Land
A Critical Bond: Cultural Transmission and Nation-Building in Métis and Chicana/o Picture Books
Exhibit: Aboriginal Contributions to the War of 1812
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
General F.D. Middleton
The Gibbet of Regina
"The Ground You Walk on Belongs to My People": Lakota Community Building, Activism, and Red Power in Western Nebraska, 1917-2000
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
Hopi Boarding School Narratives: Edmund Nequatewa's Born a Chief
Images Used: Chapter 2 (A Dying Race):Portrait of Sotanah (Rainy Chief)
Indigenous Peoples, Canada and the Possibility of Reconciliation
"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
Kateri Tekakwitha
Letter from Middleton Demanding Poundmaker's Unconditional Surrender
Louis Riel Addressing Jury in Court House at Regina
"Moose Factory Is My Home": MoCreebec's Struggle for Recognition and Self-Determination
Native Leaders of Canada
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