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The Indian Question and the Move to Fort McLeod
This piece recounts how Canada faced the Indian question as Rupert's Land was integrated, detailing treaty councils at Fort Carleton in 1876 with the North West Mounted Police, and the move of police headquarters to Fort McLeod after the Little Big Horn era. It notes Sitting Bull and Rain in the Face leading Sioux to Canada and the buffalo decline amid Miles' pursuit.
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Fort Macleod
States
Little Big Horn
Sitting Bull
Canada
Verendrye
Portage 2
Hey
Saulteaux
Western
Minnesota
Ottawa
Fort Qu’Appelle
North West Mounted Police
Qu'Appelle
Hudson's Bay
Archibald McDonald
McKay
Saskatchewan
Fort Carleton
West
Sam Steele
Inspector Dickens
Charles Dickens
Peter Erasmus
Britain
Dearby
Duck Lake
Stony Mountain Penitentiary
Deardy
Big Bear
Swan River
Fort McLeod
the Little Big Horn
The
United States
Black Hills
Washington
Rain in-the-Face
Reno
Custer
Rain In
Uncle Sam
International Boundary
Miles
Souris River
Rocky Mountains