A Geography of Blood (22 page)

Landals, Dr. Alison, 83

Late Cretaceous, 45–46, 47.
See also
dinosaurs; “Scotty”; T.rex Discovery Centre

Lebret,
SK
, 165

LeGrace, Ed, 105

Lethbridge,
AB
, 92

Little Bighorn River, 5

Little Child, 131, 137, 146

“Little Friend Coyote,” 75–79

Little Pine, Chief, 131, 136, 137, 143, 146, 149, 150

Little Rocky Mountains, 7

Little Soldier, 105

“livelihood.”
See otapanihowin.

Llano Estacado, 97

lodgepole pines, 11, 84

Lucky Man, Chief, 131, 136, 137, 143, 146, 149, 150

Macdonald, John A., 106–7, 123, 127, 129, 135, 138, 140, 145, 173

Macleod, Colonel James F., 118, 121–22, 128, 129, 130

Majorville medicine wheel, 185

Man Who Took the Coat, The, 102, 130, 137, 146, 147, 150, 155

Maple Creek,
SK
, 15, 16, 135, 137, 145, 151, 154, 155, 159, 172, 176

Maple Creek reserve, 163.
See also
Nekaneet First Nation

Marias River, 92

McKay family, 116

Medicine Hat,
AB
, 10, 96, 154

Métis, 8, 10, 36, 60, 61, 64, 74, 93, 94–96, 98, 99, 102, 104, 105, 115, 136, 143, 172, 173, 180–81, 182

Michif, 10

Milk River, 76, 94, 130, 136, 138

Minahikosis, 131

Missouri River, 7, 16, 57, 121, 127, 138

Mistahi-maskwa, 131–32.
See also
Big Bear

Mnikĥówožu (Miniconjou) Lakota, 4.
See also
Lakota nation

montagnes des cyprès
, 10

Montana, 2, 3, 6, 25, 74, 75, 83, 96, 101, 108, 110, 136, 138, 139, 143, 146, 154, 166

moose, 12, 53, 88

Nakoda, 74, 92, 93, 102, 103, 104, 105, 125, 129, 130, 131, 137, 138, 147, 172, 176, 182.
See also
Assiniboine nation; Cypress Hills Massacre; Man Who Took the Coat, The; Kennedy, Dan

Napi, 185

Nehiyawak, 74.
See also
Cree nation

Nekaneet, Chief, ix, 61, 137, 153–56, 157, 162, 163, 173–76

Nekaneet First Nation, 158, 176.
See also
Oakes, Jean Francis; Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge; Pahtayken, Chief Alice

Nez Perce, 7–8, 120

Nibus, Edmond and Marie, 26–27, 152

nighthawks, 43, 87, 88

Niitsítapi, 74, 125–26, 181, 183.
See also
Blackfeet; Blackfoot; Káínai; Piikáni; Siksika

Niitsítapi Teacher Education Program, 183

Northern Arapaho, 5

Northern Cheyenne, 5

North Peigan, 74.
See also
Piikáni

North Saskatchewan River, 96, 137

North-West Mounted Police, viii, 17, 29, 60, 61, 99, 105, 107, 112, 113, 115, 128, 136–37, 143–44, 147–48, 182.
See also
Macleod, Colonel James F.; Walsh, Inspector James M.

North-West Resistance, 172–73

Oakes, Gordon, 163, 166

Oakes, Jean Francis, 151, 156, 160–68, 169, 171

Oakley, Annie, 5

Ochankugahe, 110, 111–13

Oetelaar, Dr. Gerald A., 81–83

Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge, 160, 166–67, 176–78, 181

Okotoks,
AB
, 185

On a Darkling Plain,
13

otapanihowin
, viii, 84, 110, 144

pachycephalosaurus, 45

Pacific Scandal, 106–7, 123

Pahtayken, Chief Alice, 158, 159, 160

Palliser, Captain John, 60

Papewes, 131

Payepot, 137.
See also
Piapot, Chief

Peace River Country, 8, 9, 32, 96, 97, 178

Peigan, 74, 75, 76.
See also
Piikáni

pemmican, 89, 91, 94, 96, 110, 136

Piapot, Chief, 137, 146, 147, 149, 150, 154, 155

Piapot Creek, 173

Piikáni, 74, 75, 91–94.
See also
“Little Friend Coyote”

pioneers.
See
settlers and settlement stories

Piyêso kâ-pêtowitak, 151, 156.
See also
Oakes, Jean Francis

plains bison, 41.
See also
buffalo

Plains Cree, 125, 131.
See also
Cree nation

plains grizzlies.
See
grizzlies

Plains Sioux, 74.
See also
Dakota nation; Sioux

plains wolves.
See
wolves

Play-ku-tay, 112, 113

police.
See
North-West Mounted Police

prairie chickens, 41

prairie conservation.
See
grassland conservation

prairie dogs, 16, 41

prairie ecology.
See
buffalo; grassland conservation

pronghorns, 41, 47, 68, 129

Qu'Appelle Valley, 123, 125, 137, 141, 145, 146, 147, 150, 155, 156, 165.
See also
Fort Qu'Appelle

railroad.
See
Canadian Pacific Railway

Range Riders and Sodbusters
, 25–27

rations, 128, 131, 132, 137, 138, 139, 141, 145, 146, 148, 149, 150, 163

Ravenscrag Butte, 56, 57

Ravenscrag,
SK
, 54, 55, 56, 58, 69, 85, 158

Recollections of an Assiniboine Chief,
110

Red Deer River, 76, 125

Red Lodge,
MT
, 6

Red Ochre Hills, 36

Red Right Hand, The, or Buffalo Bill's First Scalp for Custer
, 5

reserves and reservations, 7, 119, 120, 122, 127, 131, 137, 138, 141, 142, 145, 147, 148, 150, 155, 156, 159, 162, 163, 164, 175.
See also
treaty terms

residential schools, 157, 165

Riel, Louis, 173.
See also
North-West Resistance

Riel Rebellion, 143

Robsart,
SK
, 9, 100

Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
See
Fleming, Sergeant David, Sr.; North-West Mounted Police

Royal Saskatchewan Museum, 44

ruby-crowned kinglet, 67

sacred, definition, 170

Saskatchewan, 2, 3, 7, 11, 13, 16, 24, 25, 124, 135, 179,

Saskatchewan River drainage, 16, 36, 57, 96, 102, 125, 137, 141

Saskatoon,
SK
, 2, 3

Saulteaux nation, 131

Sawepiton, 166

“Scotty,” 44, 45, 56.

Scouts of the Prairies, The
, 5

settlers and settlement stories, 23–27, 28–31, 32, 36, 51–52, 58–59, 64–65, 89, 178–81, 184

Shaunavon,
SK
, 36, 54

Sherk, Edna Elizabeth, 9, 21, 23, 24, 30–31, 51–52

Sherk, Pauline, 178

Shoshone River, 6

Siksika, 74, 75, 92, 130, 182.
See also
Blackfoot

Sioux, 74, 120, 128.
See also
Dakota nation; Lakota nation

Sitting Bull, Chief, 117, 119, 120–22, 128, 140, 141, 157

“Sitting Bull's Boss,” 128, 140

Skull Mountainettes, 147, 176

soil ecology, 41, 42

Solomon, Moses, 103, 104, 105, 110

South Peigan, 74, 91.
See also
Blackfeet;
Piikáni

South Saskatchewan River, 16, 36

smallpox, 92, 147

Spotted Eagle, Chief, 120, 141

Stampede Site, 181–83

starvation, 102, 123, 129, 130, 131, 140.
See also
Cypress Lake; famine

Stegner House, 12–13, 18–20, 24–25, 30–31, 33, 34, 44, 85, 176

Stegner, Wallace, 13–14, 24–25, 27, 38, 40, 43, 44, 58–64, 88, 91, 96, 151, 164.
See also
Stegner House;
Wolf Willow

Stony Mountain Penitentiary, 173

Stories From My Life
, 162, 177

survey, international border, 124

surveying of reserves, 137

Su-yé-sai-pi, 76–79

swallows, 41

Swift Current,
SK
, 36, 154

telegrams, encoded, 142–43

Terry, Brigadier General Alfred H., 117, 118, 120, 121, 122

Thĥatĥáŋka Íyotake, 121.
See also
Sitting Bull, Chief

thirties drought, 27, 59–60

Thoreau, Henry David, 1, 62

tipi rings, 71, 80–83, 176

tipis, 29, 81, 84, 94, 135, 148, 174, 181

Tokaryk, Tim, 47–48

Toronto Daily Mail
, 172

treaties, 1–3, 125

Treaty 4, 125, 126, 130, 137, 159, 163

Treaty 6, 125, 126–27, 130, 131, 137, 150

Treaty 7, 125, 130

Treaty 8, 179–80

Treaty Commissioner, 126

treaty terms, 125–27, 130, 143: inadequacy of, 132, 141

T.rex Discovery Centre, 44–48, 55, 69, 85, 176

Two Medicine River, 94

Tyrannosaurus rex
, 44–45.
See also
T.rex Discovery Centre

unconformity, definition, 56–57

United States military, viii, 4, 5, 7, 60, 81, 92, 108, 111, 118, 119, 120, 146.
See also
Baker, Major Eugene M.; Custer, General George Armstrong; Fort Assinniboine; Terry, Brigadier General Alfred H.

Upper Cretaceous, 55

Wadsworth, T. P. (official), 154, 155

Wallace Stegner House.
See
Stegner House

Walsh, Inspector James M., 115–16, 120, 121, 128, 140

Wankantu, 105

Wesa'kaca, 166, 167–68

whiskey trade, 103, 106, 107, 110, 113, 116

White, Frederick, 148

Whitemud Coulee, 103, 107, 176

Whitemud Formation, 56

white-tailed deer, 20, 39, 159

wolfers, 103, 104, 113

Wolf Point,
MT
, 113

Wolf Willow,
13–14, 24, 31, 40, 58, 59, 61–64, 66, 88, 91

wolves, 41, 185

Women's Buffalo Jump, 185

Wood Mountain, 93, 120, 122, 128, 136, 141

Wyoming, 3, 5, 6, 17, 170

Yankton Sioux, 74

Yellow Hair, Chief, 5–6

Yellowstone National Park, 4

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