Hopscotch

Bloody Falls Massacre

• Samuel Hearne
• Dene and Inuit Conflict
• 1771
• Matonabbee Chip Leader
• Claims of massacre unsubstantiated

"No tribe has the right to sell land, even to each other, much less to strangers ..."
Tecumseh

Tecumseh

• Shawnee Chief
• Confederacy of Native Groups
• Allied with Brock/British to defeat Americans
• Took Fort Detroit by trickery
• Procter's lack of support lead to his death.
• Reason you're not US citizen

Gabriel Dumont

• Métis leader
• hunt chief & warrior
• 1885 North-West Rebellion with Louis Riel
• 7 languages, treaties with Dakota & Blackfoot
• Pardoned in 1886

George Simpson

Economy Movement

• Merged NWC & HBC
• Surprised visits to posts and reduced waste
• Character book of personalities
• Constantly travelling
• A viceroy essentially

Canoes to York Boats

Who Does Simpson Remind you of?

• Don John the Trickster?
• Don Pedro the Prime Mover?
• Hero the absent player?
• Another?

Laura Secord

A Spy

• Wife of settler in Queenstown, Upper Canada
• Born in US, but loyalist
• Surprise dinner guests
• Travelled 30.5 km to warn of attack

Cypress Hills

What Happened?

• Lack of Canadian authority west of Winnepeg
• June 1, 1873 wolf hunters and traders killed 20+ Assiniboine near Battle Creek.
• No convictions

Laura Secord and the Cypress Hills Massacre


Which Much Ado theme applies?