more concerned with security than with making concessions to the Indians over land. A provincial commission persuaded Isadore to hand Kapula over to them, and a detachment of the NWMP under Steele was
, militia officer, and NWMP officer; b. 13 Dec. 1844 in Shipton-on-Cherwell, England
, 1857–1957 ([Belleville, 1957]). Turner, NWMP
Lougheed*, had him moved to the more comfortable NWMP guardroom. On 19 April Campbell was released on $1,000 bail. Meanwhile, the police ran into difficulty building a case against him
Cameron’s protectionist leanings and his continued, inveterate campaign against the administration of Indian Affairs and the NWMP embarrassing. Still, his interest in the west made him an obvious candidate
– control of the NWMP; the lands survey fell under Burgess’s control when Russell was forced to retire because of ill health.
Burgess had become
appeal to Crowfoot for his surrender by Lieutenant Governor Edgar Dewdney*, a 100-man NWMP search of the reserve, and the offer of a $50
request that he support the formation of a provisional government. André refused and an argument followed. The engagement on 26 March near Duck Lake between the NWMP and Métis heralded the outbreak of
Sioux and were saved only by the intervention of Walsh and Acheson Gosford Irvine, the assistant commissioner of the NWMP. On another occasion Walsh arrested three Indians for horse-stealing in the middle
commanded by NWMP Superintendent Lief Newry Fitzroy Crozier*. Despite the fact that the Métis were protected by natural cover and
faith in the sun spirit. During the ceremonies a man was accused of assaulting John Craig, the farm instructor on an adjacent reserve. Anticipating a possible outbreak of violence, the NWMP fortified the
. . . .” Superintendent Lief Newry Fitzroy Crozier* of the NWMP rode to the forks to
the Sun Dance (Thirst Dance) which preceded the council at Battleford, a NWMP unit under the command of Lief Newry Fitzroy Crozier
KUKATOSI-POKA (Starchild, sometimes referred to as Kucka-toosinah), Blood Indian and NWMP scout; b
selling its horses, eating its dogs, and begging for food from the NWMP.
Edgar Dewdney*, newly
.”
In December 1874 Crowfoot first met James Farquharson Macleod*, assistant commissioner of the NWMP, and the two became
later that year, when the NWMP, led by Éphrem-A. Brisebois, arrived to establish Fort Calgary, he was on