CALGARY—On a grassy hill at Blackfoot Crossing in 1967, five-year-old Milton Tootoosis watched as the bones of legendary Cree Chief Poundmaker were exhumed from Alberta’s soil. “We knew as five-year-old kids that this individual that we were paying attention to that day was someone very special,” the headman and councillor of the Poundmaker Cree Nation recently said. OTTER ROUTED BY CHIEF POUNDMAKER’ screamed the newspaper’s headline in May 1885, painting the Cree leader as a bloodthirsty rebel. Poundmaker Cree Nation Chief Duane Antoine and Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde will give responses. He said the ceremony will have great significance for the Poundmaker Cree Nation — and for reconciliation as a whole.

Source: thestar May 23, 2019 11:01 UTC