1 - Chief Peguis

Sources

Chief Peguis’s Speech at Red River, October 18th 1863 (Source: Nor’Wester (1859), 1863-10-14. (Page 3)

Peers, Laura. The Ojibway of Western Canada (1994)

Sutherland, Donna. Peguis: A Noble Friend (2003).

Teillet, Jean. The Northwest is Our Mother (2019).

Hargrave, Joseph James. Red River (1871).

Thompson, Albert Edward. Chief Peguis and His Descendants (1973).

Sinclair, Niigan. “Smallpox epidemic left massive Indigenous burial ground under Winnipeg’s downtown”, Winnipeg Free Press, October 2, 2018.

Paul, Alexandra. “In Praise of Peguis”, Winnipeg Free Press, July 15, 2017.

Peguis, Peguis Selkirk Treaty 200.

Province of Manitoba, Peguis Pamphlet.

Additional Reading:

(This is material I read that didn’t make it into the final episode, but is worth sharing)

Burrows, Paul B. “As She Shall Deem Just: Treaty 1 and the Ethnic Cleansing of the St. Peter’s Reserve, 1871-1934”. University of Manitoba Thesis. 2009.

Hall, Norma Jean. “‘A Perfect Freedom’: Red River as a Settler Society, 1810-1870”, University of Manitoba Thesis, 2003.

Larcombe, Linda. “Ceramics as Indicators as Economic Variation in the Red River Settlement”. University of Manitoba Thesis. 1988.

Podruchny, Carolyn. “‘I Have Embraced the White Man’s Religion’:The Relations Between the Peguis Band and the Church Missionary Society, 1820-1838” Papers of the 26th Algonquian Conference, edited by David H. Pentland (1995): 350-78.

Van Kirk, Sylvia. Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur Trade Society, 1670-1870.

Welcome to the first episode of One Great 150, folks! We’re beyond excited to get this project going and to have you along for the ride. And to kick things off, we’re starting with Chief Peguis!

The Red River Valley Peguis arrived into was one already marked with the scars of the fur trade, and he quickly established himself as a skilled leader, hunter, and warrior in the area. Over his summers spent at his camp near Kildonan Park, Peguis would witness the comings and goings of countless new arrivals: Cuthbert Grant, returned home after many years away, the Selkirk Settlers, the Selkirk Settlers coming back, and Lord Selkirk – who Peguis would sign the Peguis-Selkirk of 1817 with.

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A huge thank you to Niigan Sinclair and Allen Sutherland for speaking to us about Peguis! If you want to hear the interviews in full (and you should, they’re great), you can check them out for free on our patreon – available here. For $5 a month you also get access to our bonus episodes, including post 150 episode discussions on sources and what we had to leave out.

Thanks to the Winnipeg Free Press and the Manitoba Historical Society for their support! You can check out a brief write up of the episode in the Winnipeg Free Press.