Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
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Sketch showing the surrender to French's Scouts, led by Lord Melgund, General Middleton's chief of staff. Sketch caption : "Three Dakota scouts told their captors that they had been forced to join Riel."
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 1, February/March 2017, pp. 32-35
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Chronicles the recently discovered artistic output of Canadian painter Francis Fitz Roy Dixon who created over seventy paintings of the Northwest Rebellion of 1885.
Sketch subtitle: White inhabitants of the Saskatchewan region leaving a settlement after an Indian raid. Two males and one female, all wearing snowshoes and heavy coats, walking through the snow. The woman is carrying a small child.
Sketch of wounded men from the Battle of Fish Creek being treated; some on stretchers, one man sitting on the ground, and one man standing with two medical personnel being treated. Men on horseback in background.