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Aboriginal Couple
Historical note:
On information card: Photograph of historic value taken by one of the first cameras in the Territory [NWT].Blackfeet at Earnscliffe
Chief Big Bear of the Plains Cree
[Chief Crowfoot of the Blackfoot] - Portrait. - [1880s?].
Historical note:
The Blackfoot chief Crowfoot was born ca. 1830 near Belly River, AB, and died near Blackfoot Crossing, AB on 25 Apr 1890. Born a Blood, he grew up among the Blackfoot. As a teenager, he showed great bravery in a battle by advancing and striking a painted tipi in the hostile Crow camp.Chief Poundmaker
Chief Poundmaker
Coulee at Fort Qu'Appelle, N.W.T.
Cree Chiefs from Crooked Lake
Cut Knife Hill Historic Marker Ceremony
Cut Knife Historic Marker
The Face Pullers: Ch. 1 Images - Big Bear 1825-88
The Face Pullers: Ch.1 Images - Chief Bobtail and Son
The Face Pullers: Ch.1 Images - Chief Bull Plume
The Face Pullers: Ch.1 images - "Indian Sun Dance, Making a Brave"
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 - Participants at Sun Dance
Black and white photograph of two young Indigenous men on horseback. 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 - Deerfoot with rifle
The Face Pullers: Ch. 2 Images - Portrait of Isapo-Muxika
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.
The Face Pullers: Ch.2 Images - Sarcee Woman
The Face Pullers: Ch. 2 Images - Unidentified Blood Warrior
Subject holding rifle, sitting on animal hide wearing traditional clothing. Shot in studio. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Fine Day
[Four Sky Thunder]
General F.D. Middleton
Government Surveyors (Scout) Corps During the 1885 Uprising
Head and shoulders portrait of Chief Poundmaker
Images Used: Chapter 2 (A Dying Race):Portrait of Sotanah (Rainy Chief)
Interior of Fort Pitt, Just [Before] the Rebellion of 1885
Judge Hugh Richardson and Peter Hourie
Kahneepotaytayo, Big Bear's Head Dancer
Kahneepotaytayo, Big Bear's Head Dancer
Lieut.-Col. Boulton - Sketch. - 1885.
Historical note:
Charles Arkoll Boulton (b. 17 April 1841 - d. 15 May 1899) is noted for his role in the Red River and North-West Resistances.Louis Riel Addressing Jury in Court House at Regina
Mann Children in 1885
Metis prisoners in courtyard
NWMP Superintendent Crozier
One of Two Cree Women Who Surrendered at Battleford
Parade at Regina
Patrick Burke
People at Cut Knife Historical Marker Unveiling Ceremony
Photographs of Lieutenant R. Lyndhurst Wadmore - 1885, [1910?].
Historical note:
Robinson Lyndhurst Wadmore, who was born in England in 1855, entered the Canadian forces as a lieutenant in 1883 and served with the Royal Canadian Regiment during the Northwest Resistance of 1885. Wadmore became a colonel in 1910. He died in Victoria, BC, in 1915.