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In the spring of 2008, Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Christine Tell proclaimed in Duck Lake that "the 125th commemoration, in 2010, of the 1885 Northwest Resistance is an excellent opportunity to tell the story of the prairie Métis and First Nations peoples' struggle with Government
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lifestyle to a more stationary one, modelled on European societies. They also hoped that the NWMP would assist settlers in their homesteading efforts and their presence in the area would encourage the people to respect the law.
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route was also to pass through Battleford, along the Qu'Appelle route, but it was eventually built on a more southerly route, which resulted in the moving of the capital of the North-West Territories from Battleford to
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population in the Battleford area, further prompted the federal government to establish a strong NWMP presence. Both the Canadian government and the First Nations were quite aware of what had transpired south of the
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of the North-West Territories played a substantial role in the decision to locate the fort there. The government's belief was that the presence of the NWMP would act as a civilizing influence on the
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rivers offered access to fresh water, as it was many years before an on-site well was made available; and offered an alternative means of transportation to the
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said in a letter that "the executions... ought to convince the Red Man that the White Man governs."
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1880-1890 - North-west Rebellion The 'siege of Battleford' as reported in the Saskatchewan Herald
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A newspaper clipping from December 1885 which closely followed the hangings suggests that Judge
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occurred here when eight First Nations men were executed for murder in the aftermath of the
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Forts or trading posts on the National Historic Sites of Canada register
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Canadian State Trials: Political Trials and Security Measures, 1840-1914
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Index

North Saskatchewan
Battleford, Saskatchewan

Canada
North-West Rebellion
National Historic Site of Canada
North-West Mounted Police
North-West Mounted Police
North-West Territories
Canada
North-West Rebellion
Poundmaker
Cree
Stoney
Frog Lake Massacre
Looting of Battleford
John A. Macdonald

North Saskatchewan
Battle
Red River cart
Battleford
capital
First Nations
nomadic
Native American
United States
Aboriginal
Medicine Line
Canadian Pacific Railway

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