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In 1881, the band settled on a reserve about 40 km northwest of Fort Battleford. [3] Poundmaker was not opposed to the idea of a treaty, but became critical of the Canadian government's failures to live up to its promises. [3] In 1873, Crowfoot, chief of the Blackfoot First Nation, had adopted Poundmaker thereby increasing the latter's ...
The Poundmaker Cree Nation (Cree: ᐲᐦᑐᑲᐦᐊᓇᐱᐏᔨᐣ, pîhtikwahânapiwiyin [1]) is a Cree First Nations band government, whose reserve community is ...
Prominent leaders of this uprising were Chief Poundmaker and Chief Big Bear. Poundmaker and his band had a reserve near present-day Cut Knife about 50 km (31 miles) west of Fort Battleford. Big Bear and his band had settled near Frog Lake about 55 km (34 miles) northwest of Fort Pitt but had not yet selected a reserve site. [1]
Poundmaker's mixed Cree-Assiniboine war party surrendered. Three weeks later, Big Bear's band won a victory at Frenchman's Butte, but this was in vain. The last band holding out (Big Bear and Wandering Spirit's) was dispersed at Loon Lake on 3 June 1885. After the rebellion Big Bear and Poundmaker were briefly imprisoned; Wandering Spirit and ...
Either way, Poundmaker's people left the next day. Meanwhile, bands of Assiniboine living south of Battleford heard about the Métis rebellion. A few of them killed a local farmer who had treated them harshly, and shot their Indian agent for beating a teenage girl. They then went north to Battleford to meet up with Poundmaker.
To the west, the Battleford sub-district where the Cree uprising of people in bands led by Poundmaker and Big Bear occurred, had 3,603 people. [ 24 ] [ 36 ] The largest settlement and the capital of the district was Prince Albert with about 800 people [ 37 ] followed by Battleford with about 500 people who were "divided about equally between ...
On March 28, 1885, news arrived that Indian bands commanded by Poundmaker were on their way to Battleford. Five hundred civilians began moving into the nearby North-West Mounted Police post, Fort Battleford, for protection against the Cree raids. [2] Fort Battleford was under the command of Colonel William Morris and had a small garrison of 25 ...
In March 1885, Chief Poundmaker [6] and fellow Cree band members travelled to Battleford in search of supplies and rations for famine relief. The local Indian agent refused to meet with Poundmaker and with "a lot of restless Indians wandering the vicinity of the town", the homesteaders fled to the nearby Fort Battleford.