Views From Fort Battleford Boy a young hero who comes

a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear

Papers of particular interest include: Dressing for the Homeward Journey: Western Anishnaabe Leadership Roles Viewed through Two Nineteenth-Century Burials

some of Blackwood's diary entries

and Ruby Slipperjack (Winter with Grandma)

the pre-professional history of Canadian anthropology

Views From Fort Battleford Boy a young hero who comesThe myth of the mounties as neutral arbiters between Aboriginal peoples and incoming settlers remains a cornerstone of the western Canadian narrative of a peaceful frontier experience that differs dramatically from its American equivalent. Walter Hildebrandt eviscerates this myth, placing the NWMP and early settlement in an international framework of imperialist plunder and the imposition of colonialist ideology. Fort Battleford, as an architectural