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families died in blizzards, leav-
ing their bodies to their starv-
ing dogs.

Maddened by delerium,
berserk victims tried to give

12 - Sunday, September 15, 1985 - North Shore News

tiors, who had joined the
uprising, likewise surrendered
in the face of heavily-armed
troops brought in by train.
Among the victors, those

who wished to stay were hand-
ed our parcels of seized land,
and Western Canada as we
know it began to take shape —
a rebel state, twice conquered.

the plague back to its source
by rubbing their open sores on
the gates, door handles and
window frames of various
forts, sometimes stacking the
hadies of their dead beside the
white man’s posts in the hope
of ‘poisonig the air.

After the plague came
drought and famine. By 1884,
the year Riel re-joined his
‘followers in Saskatchewan,
the Plains Indians as well as
the Metis were reduced to
walking ‘skeletons. ‘The food
and tools for farming promis-
ed by the Great White Mother
in return for the peaceful sur-
render of lands had not
materialized. The politicians
in Ottawa had decided, since
the exchequer was low, to cut
back on Indian rations,
treaties notwithstanding.”

It was in a desperate bid to’-
right these gross injustices that,
Riel accepted a call from the -
Metis to attempt once more to
stop the onslaught. of Cana-
dians, most English-speaking,
from the east.

By June, 1885, Riel and his
men had been crushed utterly
at Batoche, partially thanks to
the invention of the Gatling
gun. Big Bear and Pound-
‘maker’s rebellious Cree war-

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