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Post by grahamew on Jun 1, 2022 6:21:31 GMT -5
This should probably go elsewhere because it's not an image, but three letters that relate to the Lakota after Little Bighorn and their relations with the Metis, specifically Louis Riel, living at the time in Montana, who wrote them to Lieutenant Colonel Henry Moore Black, the commanding officer of Fort Assiniboine in March 1880. Riel saw an opportunity when the Lakota came down into Montana from Canada to hunt buffalo: if he could persuade them to surrender, he hoped the American government wouldn't evict the Metis and by getting shot of large numbers of Lakota, he would improve the hunting for his own people and the local Gros Ventre and Assiniboine with whom he had built up a relationship. Sitting Bull and the other Lakota under Bull Dog and Red Elk turned him down. As you'll see from this attached pdf, Riel put the blame on James Walsh and the NWMP at Fort Walsh because he felt they didn't want to lose the relationship with the Lakota that they had built up since the latter arrived after Little Bighorn: ourspace.uregina.ca/bitstream/handle/10294/24/MCCRADY.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y |
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Post by Californian on Jun 1, 2022 10:20:10 GMT -5
Thank you Grahame, that's great documentary material giving some more insights into the subject of the Lakota's exile in Canada and more so of Louis Riel's attempts to influence U.S. policy ultimately to serve his own intentions
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Post by grahamew on Jun 1, 2022 12:08:39 GMT -5
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Post by Californian on Jun 1, 2022 17:36:44 GMT -5
thank you Grahame, that certainly will be a book to read and learn more on the specific subject of the Riel Rebellion of 1885 and more so the Metis/First Nations' relationships and interactions during that period
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Post by grahamew on Jun 2, 2022 4:36:34 GMT -5
This should probably go elsewhere because it's not an image, but three letters that relate to the Lakota after Little Bighorn and their relations with the Metis, specifically Louis Riel, living at the time in Montana, who wrote them to Lieutenant Colonel Henry Moore Black, the commanding officer of Fort Assiniboine in March 1880. Riel saw an opportunity when the Lakota came down into Montana from Canada to hunt buffalo: if he could persuade them to surrender, he hoped the American government wouldn't evict the Metis and by getting shot of large numbers of Lakota, he would improve the hunting for his own people and the local Gros Ventre and Assiniboine with whom he had built up a relationship. Sitting Bull and the other Lakota under Bull Dog and Red Elk turned him down. As you'll see from this attached pdf, Riel put the blame on James Walsh and the NWMP at Fort Walsh because he felt they didn't want to lose the relationship with the Lakota that they had built up since the latter arrived after Little Bighorn: ourspace.uregina.ca/bitstream/handle/10294/24/MCCRADY.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=yOnly fair to point out, of course, that this gives Riel the agency and power in this relationship. I'm sure Sitting Bull and the others (and probably the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine in Montana) were playing him for what they could get as much as he was trying to do the same. And in Sitting Bull's case, he succeeded. |
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Post by grahamew on Jun 8, 2022 13:23:35 GMT -5
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Post by richpickering on Jun 10, 2022 2:08:34 GMT -5
Hi Grahame. In the picture with all of the "NWMP", I'm not sure if any of them are NWMP. They all look like different Militia uniforms. Which would probably date the pic to 1885, just after the 1885 Rebellion, or Resistance. It would be interesting to know the location.
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Post by grahamew on Jun 10, 2022 2:30:21 GMT -5
Ah, so that's the photo of the dance. Thanks. That would be interesting - especially if this was one of the visits to Black Bull's camp.
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Post by grahamew on Jun 27, 2022 14:35:56 GMT -5
A late arrival:  I have to say, without the notation I would have been hard-pressed to suggest he's 'Sioux.' |
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Post by grahamew on Jun 29, 2022 8:35:14 GMT -5
 Henri has sent me a photo of the bag this man is holding and a note that its identification is Blackfoot, though he suspects the man could be Cree or Blackfoot. I might even go with Saulteaux. Meantime, here's a link to wonderful PhD dissertation by Claire Thomson - Digging Roots and Remembering Relatives: Lakota Kinship and Movement in the Northern Great Plains from the Wood Mountain Uplands across Lakóta Tȟamákȟočhe/Lakota Country, 1881-1940It's about the Lakota who stayed in Canada at Moose Jaw then moved later to Wood Mountain, exploring their history and survivance after 1881 and examining their kinship links to each other and others living in 'Lakȟóta Tȟamákȟočhe/Lakota Country.' era.library.ualberta.ca/items/2e4e89bb-8cfa-40c3-bb3f-7feabf903964One of the illustrations she uses is a variant on this photo:  Big Jack (i.e. Good Robe) at Moose Jaw. She has found evidence at Moose Jaw library that this is "Old Bogue [i.e. White Rabbit, though not the same White Rabbit as Big Jim], Sioux Indian with family at Moose Jaw, 1898," taken by N.J. Porter. |
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Post by grahamew on Aug 29, 2022 13:01:48 GMT -5
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Post by grahamew on Jan 7, 2023 9:19:03 GMT -5
Here are some newspaper clippings related to the role of White Cap:  1885 Winnipeg Manitoba Weekly Free Press White Cap at Batoche - Riel's secretary claiming that White Cap was sworn as a member of Riel's Council. Garnot's testimony about his own role is interesting, to put it mildy, as seems to be doing his level best to disassociate himself from Riel - and perhaps that's what he was aiming for while giving testimony against White Cap. Gerald Willoughby of Saskatoon, a Dakota-apeaking white, testified in White Cap's defence, saying he had had been press-ganged by a force of 20 or so Metis who had stopped the intervention of a group of Whites led by Willoughby, to whom White Cap had appealed for help. Willoughby declared that White Cap had always been a friend of the whites in the district - and, in fact, had already turned down appeals by two messengers from Batoche. www.famous-trials.com/louisriel/869-garnottestimonyLawrence Barkwell's monograph on White Cap: 11967.White Cap.pdf (207.64 KB)  Riel's 1885 Council - note the presence of Garnot  1885 Montreal Quebec Daily Star Note the mis-identification of White Cap as Teton  1886 New Ulm Minnesota Review  The Argus, Melbourne, Victoria; Wed, 13 May, 1885  1887 Prince Albert Saskatchewan Review Saskatoon newspaper from June 1927 - again, conflating White Cap with the Tetons:   Woman and child visiting Saskatoon  Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 1986 - an attempt at a reasonable view |
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Post by grahamew on Feb 20, 2023 6:01:43 GMT -5
 I've, uh, swiped this from Ron Papandrea's excellent Wood Mountain Lakota & Friends Facebook site at www.facebook.com/groups/2759808450783554?locale=en_GB"Old Bogue “ and family. Medicine Man for Sioux Tribe Moose Jaw 1898 . A shared restored and colourized photo by Ron Dormer." |
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Post by grahamew on Apr 11, 2023 12:34:14 GMT -5
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Post by Californian on Apr 11, 2023 14:07:04 GMT -5
great article Grahame, thanks for sharing.
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