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