The Prairie Provinces of Canada : their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources . ade to Sir William Butler, whenthe latter was on his way to the Red Riverto join Wolseleys force in their operationsagainst the half-breeds. Kill every buffalovou see, said a Yankee colonel, for everybuffalo dead is an Indian gone. Althoughthe destruction of the buffalo had gone onever since the coming of the white man,it only reached its climax in the earlyeighties, when the construction of theCanadian Pacific Railway sealed theirdoom bv throwing a road across theirpath, along which hunters and spor
The Prairie Provinces of Canada : their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources . ade to Sir William Butler, whenthe latter was on his way to the Red Riverto join Wolseleys force in their operationsagainst the half-breeds. Kill every buffalovou see, said a Yankee colonel, for everybuffalo dead is an Indian gone. Althoughthe destruction of the buffalo had gone onever since the coming of the white man,it only reached its climax in the earlyeighties, when the construction of theCanadian Pacific Railway sealed theirdoom bv throwing a road across theirpath, along which hunters and sportsmenhurried to reap their harvest of flesh andblood. Little by little the Indians becamedispossessed of their means of existence,and with the disappearance of the bisonthey sank into a state of penury and for the action of the Canadian Govern-ment they, too, in all probability wouldhave disappeared from the plains. In the maps of Western Canada drawn inthe early years of last century many namesof Indian tribes that now sound strangely inour ears are to be found scattered over the. 1. HEROIC DEFENCE OF FORT PITT BY INSPECTOR DICKENS, APRIL 22, NORTH-WEST VIEW OF PRINCE OF WALES FORT, HUDSON BAY. 3. THE BEAR DANCE. 4. BUFFALO HUNT. 5. THE BUFFALO DANCE. 33 THE PRAIRIE PROVINCES OF CANADA partly explored wastes. In the great spacebetween the south-western coasts of Hud-son Bay and Lake Winnipeg are shown theNena Wewhok Indians, and in the countrywest of Lake Winnipeg the Stone Indiansthen reigned supreme, whilst further westwere the Blackfoot Indians, and in thebarren country to the north the unfortunateChippewas, who had been driven fartherand farther from the most desirable hunting-grounds, were still carrying on their tightwith their more fortunate enemies. In thefar north-west were shown the Beaver,Strongbow, Mountain, Nathana, and CopperIndians, whilst about the mouth of theMackenzie River was a tribe bearing thesignificant designation of ,
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