Cypress Hills

An Island by Itself

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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With an abundance of buffalo, other game, and lodge pole pine, the hills straddling the Alberta/Saskatchewan/United States border were a natural gathering point for First Nations and Métis peoples. Their presence drew the Hudson Bay Company and American free traders, whiskey traders, and wolfers, resulting in a clash of cultures culminating in the 1873 Cypress Hills massacre, an armed ambush of a Nakoda camp by a group of drunken wolfers and whiskey traders. This event brought the Northwest Mounted Police to maintain peace in the west, and led to the creation of Fort Walsh, today a national historic site. Hildebrandt and Hubner uncover the history, stories, and people to establish a historical narrative of this significant region.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-05-01
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt280 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor184
FörlagPurich Publishing
MedarbetareButala,Sharon
ISBN9781895830309

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Walter Hildebrandt is known as both a poet and historian. A consultant on Aboriginal treaties, he is co-author of The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7, which won the Gustavus Myers Award for outstanding work on intolerance in North America in 1997. He is the author of Views From Battleford: Constructed Visions of an Anglo-Canadian West, and The Battle of Batoche: British Small Warfare and the Entrenched Métis.Brian Hubner has published numerous articles and book reviews, as well as being co-author of two editions of a book of the history and people of the Cypress Hills; The Cypress Hills: The Land and its People (1994) and Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself (2007).

Introduction1. The Cypress Hills and their PeopleThe HillsThe People2. The Buffalo and the Fur TradeThe BuffaloThe HBC and the Fur Trade to 1870Indian Women in the Fur Trade3. Whoop-Up CountryThe American TradersThe Trading Cycle4. The Cypress Hills MassacreThe Personalities5. Fort Walsh and the NWMPThe Fort EstablishedThe Life of the Mounties6. Treaties and ReservationsThe Prairies in TransitionThe Downstream People and Treaty 4Sitting Bull and the Dakota in Canada7. The NakodaThe Nakoda and the HillsThe Nakoda and Treaty 4The Cypress Hills Reserve 1879-82The Relocation of the Nakoda from the Cypress HillsThe Indian Head Reserve8. The Modern AgeReserve LifeThe Nekaneet BandAboriginal Women on the ReserveThe Ranching EraFort Walsh National Historic SiteNotesBibliographyIndex