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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Allen, Robert S.
Title:
A Witness to murder: the Cypress Hills Massacre and the
conflict of attitudes towards native people of the Canadian and American West during the
1870's
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
As long as the sun shines and water flows : a reader in
Canadian native studies, edited by Ian A.L. Getty and Antoine S. Lussier
Published By: Original publisher
As long as the sun shines and water flows : a reader in
Canadian native studies, edited by Ian A.L. Getty and Antoine S. Lussier
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 1983.
229-246 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Robert S. Allen
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2002. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Assiniboine (NF04)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
External trade (439);
Ethnic stratification (563);
External relations (648);
Warfare (726);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an account of the Cypress Hills Massacre that
occurred in southern Saskatchewan, near the Montana border 1 June 1873. A group of American
and Canadian wolfers surprised and attacked a camp of Assiniboine, whom they thought had
stolen one of their horses. They killed 22 men, women, and children and lost only one from
their own group. Allen discusses the series of massacres in Montana prior to Cypress Hills.
He also profiles each of the perpetrators, all but three who fled to the United States. The
Canadian government failed in their attempt to extradite those who did flee, however, the
North West Mounted Police found and arrested the three left in Canada. They stood trial in
Winnipeg, Manitoba in June 1876. The government desperately wanted to avoid the violence
and bloodshed occurring in the American West and establish a just rule of law, which was
deemed crucial to peaceful treaty negotiations. Although the men were acquitted, the
government's effort did impress the Indians enough to permit the peaceful negotiation and
signing of Treaties Nos. 6 and 7.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
1
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
nf04-001
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
not specified
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data
Government Official-4
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Ian Skoggard ; 2001
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1873-1876
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Saskatchewan, Canada
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Assiniboine Indians
