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  2. 1885 hangings at Battleford - Wikipedia

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    In later years, this was removed and replaced with a modern headstone bearing the names of the executed men. There is also an interpretive panel explaining the history of the burial site. The gravesite is on public property in the Town of Battleford at 52°43′54″N 108°17′42″W  /  52.73175°N 108.294886°W  / 52.73175; -108. ...

  3. Edward Rose (fur trapper) - Wikipedia

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    Edward Rose (b. circa 1780-1788, d. 1833) was an early American explorer, trapper, guide and interpreter.During his life, Rose alternated between residing with Native American tribes and working on behalf of commercial fur trapping expeditions funded by Eastern companies.

  4. List of massacres in Canada - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of events in Canada and its predecessors that are commonly characterized as massacres. Massacre is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "the indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people or (less commonly) animals; carnage, butchery, slaughter in numbers"; it also states that the term is used "in the names of certain massacres of history".

  5. List of Indian massacres in North America - Wikipedia

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    During the Rogue River Wars, in response to the Lupton massacre, Indians killed 27 settlers in what later became Gold Beach. 27 (settlers) [224] 1855: December 23: Little Butte Creek: Oregon: Oregon volunteers launched a dawn attack on a Tututni and Takelma camp on the Rogue River. Between 19 and 26 Indians were killed. 19–26 [225] 1856: June

  6. Indigenous peoples in Canada - Wikipedia

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    More than half of First Nations people (55. 5%) lived in Western Canada as of 2021. Ontario had the highest number of First Nations people, with 251,030 (about 23.9%) of the total First Nations population. Approximately 11.1% of First Nations people lived in Quebec, with 7.6% in Atlantic Canada and 1.9% in the territories. [185]

  7. Larocque's expedition to Yellowstone River - Wikipedia

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    “Horses have been killed and women wounded” due to jealousy. A Shoshone in camp shot his wife dead, when he found her with another man for the third time. [2]: 184 The shortest camp movement of only three miles brought the travelling Indians to a scenic spot with fine grass for the horse herds.

  8. Herman Lehmann - Wikipedia

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    Herman Lehmann lived with Quanah Parker's family on the Kiowa-Comanche reservation in 1877–78. Several people took notice of the White boy living among the Native Americans. Lehmann's mother still searched for her son. She questioned Colonel Mackenzie, the commanding officer of Fort Sill, whether there were any blue eyed boys on the ...

  9. Highway of Tears - Wikipedia

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    The pair saw a man and a passenger who looked like a girl inside the vehicle. [19] Ignas had been strangled. [20] E-Pana Coreen Thomas 21 Homicide Vanderhoof: 1976 (July) Thomas, an Indigenous woman, was struck and killed by a car driven by Richard Redekop, a white man, on 3 July 1976. Thomas and her nine-month old fetus died. [21]