A chapter in Cree history from Saskatoon’s Star Phoenix: “History Matters: ‘My people made war gently'”

Bill Waiser, Saskatoon’s Star Phoenix, 27 October 2015. Shared via embedded link.

On the morning of May 26, 1885, Cree Chief Poundmaker proudly led his people into Battleford under a white flag of truce to meet with Gen. Frederick Middleton, commander of the North-West Field Force. After surrendering their weapons at Middleton’s insistence as proof of their unconditional submission, the chief and his people gathered in a large semicircle at the feet of the general, who looked down upon them from his chair.

Source: History Matters: ‘My people made war gently’

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