Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. List of Illustrations xv
4. I PROLOGUE
5. Tape A 1
6. II THE MOUND-BUILDERS
7. The work is a plain one 7
8. In the Long Knives’ country 9
9. A Maundy Thursday 10
10. Blood-red the sun 11
11. Sun-red the blood or, The sun pushed a huge crimson shoulder above the skyline 14
12. Red the sun blood or, She has but half a smoke to live 16
13. The red-blood sun or, The sun had scorched its green roofing leaves was sinking 18
14. The ordinary red man 20
15. Among the valuable things 22
16. Entering the lodge of a Wood Cree 23
17. Oh, Sun, 24
18. All that remained of the H.B. Co’s business at Frog Lake 25
19. Bullets 26
20. The curtain drop on the last scene in this grim, emotional drama 27
21. Tape B 28
22. III THAT LITTLE HAMLET BY THE CREEK
23. Solomon says 33
24. Eyes 35
25. I peeked over the bank of his horrible-looking head and my scalp felt very loose 36
26. Not the desire of the author of this work to publish 38
27. A most unmelodious 39
28. Write a cold, matter-of-fact statement of the event 40
29. Gathered up a few that were scattered around in the dirt and saved them when no one was looking 41
30. Without giving expression to sentiments of sorrow 42
31. Had I only the language at my command 43
32. That little hamlet by the creek 44
33. When one has nothing to write about it is hard to fill up pages 45
34. Tape C 46
35. IV THE INADVERTENT POETRY OF MAJOR-GENERAL THOMAS BLAND STRANGE
36. The Queen is the supreme power in the Realm The message thus being transmitted:— 53
37. Our Jingo found himself on the deck of a steamer 56
38. Our Jingo and B Battery reach the ice cone at Montmorency 57
39. Rough Work: Rumour to-night Indians being tampered with 58
40. The fibre of the iron had crystallised 59
41. Rough Work: Endeavouring to secure additional mountain guns 60
42. Not a blade of grass for a hundred miles 61
43. Rough Work: The safety and peace in this country will be jeopardized 62
44. Jingo’s house 64
45. Rough Work: If wheat and seed come by boat they will be in time 65
46. Jingo’s speech at Frog Lake on The Queen’s birthday 66
47. Rough Work: Some justifiable measure should be made to prevent escape of Riel and following 67
48. I fear I should have lost my small army in this very big Country 69
49. Rough Work: Three french half breeds blundered south 70
50. With field-glasses could be detected 71
51. I have seen miles of territory just south of the line 72
52. Tape D 73
53. V THE TRIAL
54. Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua 75
55. And I could not refuse them, I dare not refuse them, because they would have just as likely as not blown my brains out 77
56. Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear 78
57. According to W.J. Maclean, sworn 79
58. Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear, the prisoner 80
59. According to Henry R. Halpin, sworn 81
60. Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear, the prisoner 83
61. And unofficially 84
62. Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear, the prisoner, the prisoner in the dock 85
63. And the official twenty-three words of Big Bear leftover from his trial (translated from Cree) Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear, the prisoner, the prisoner in the dock 86
64. Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear, the prisoner, the prisoner in the dock, a sort of chief 88
65. Tape E 89
66. VI EPILOGUE
67. A remarkable new jail 93
68. Tape F 97
69. Rough Work: From frenchman who defended prison to Riel 100
70. Rough Work: Although holding foolish and peculiar views concerning visions as to prophecy 101
71. The rebellion is now a thing of the past, it is now a page 102
72. Crowfoot chief of the Blackfoot, like a dark Duke of Wellington, in the house of the ‘white chief with one eye open,’ as they called Jingo (from his watchfulness and his eyeglass) 103
73. Endnotes 104
74. Literary Sources 105
75. Acknowledgements 107
76. About the Author 108