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Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Title Page 4
- Dedication 8
- Contents 12
- List of Illustrations 16
- I Prologue 18
- Tape A 19
- II The Mound-Builders 24
- The work is a plain one 25
- In the Long Knives' country 26
- A Maundy Thursday 27
- Blood-red the sun 28
- Sun-red, the blood or, The sun pushed a huge crimson shoulder above the skyline 31
- Red the sun blood or, She has but half a smoke to live 33
- The red-blood sun or, The sun had scorched its green roofing leaves was sinking 35
- The ordinary red man 37
- Among the valuable things 39
- Entering the lodge of a Wood Cree 40
- Oh, Sun 41
- All that remained of the H.B. Co's business at Frog Lake 42
- Bullets 43
- The curtain drop on the last scene in this grim, emotional drama 44
- Tape B 45
- III That Little Hamlet by the Creek 50
- Solomon says 51
- Eyes 52
- I peeked over the bank of his horrible-looking head and my scalp felt very loose 53
- not the desire of the author of this work to publish 55
- A most unmelodious 56
- Write a cold, matter-of-fact statement of the event 57
- Gathered up a few that were scattered around in the dirt and saved them when no one was looking 58
- without giving expression to sentiments of sorrow 59
- Had I only the language at my command 60
- That little hamlet by the creek 61
- When one has nothing to write about it is hard to fill up pages 62
- Tape C 63
- IV The Inadvertent Poetry of Major-General Thomas Bland Strange 70
- The Queen is the supreme power in the Realm The message thus being transmitted:- 72
- Our Jingo found himself on the deck of a steamer 73
- Our jingo and B Battery reach the ice cone at Montmorency 74
- Rough Work: Rumour to-night Indians being tampered with 75
- The fibre of the iron had crystallised 76
- Rough Work: Endeavouring to secure additional mountain guns 77
- Not a blade of grass for a hundred miles 78
- Rough Work: The safety and peace in this country will be jeopardized 79
- Jingo's house 81
- Rough Work: If wheat and seed come by boat they will be in time 82
- Jingo's speech at Frog Lake on The Queen's birthday 83
- Rough Work: Some justifiable measure should be made to prevent escape of Riel and following 84
- I fear I should have lost my small army in this very big country 86
- Rough Work: Three french half breeds blundered south 87
- With field-glasses could be detected 88
- I have seen miles of territory just south of the line 89
- Tape D 90
- V The Trial 92
- Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua 93
- And I could not refuse them, I dare not refuse them, because they would have just a likely as not blown my brains out 94
- Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear 95
- According to W.J. Maclean, sworn 96
- Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear, the prisoner 97
- According to Henry R. Halpin, sworn 98
- Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear, the prisoner 100
- And unofficially 101
- Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear, the prisoner, the prisoner in the dock 102
- And the official twenty-three words of Big Bear leftover from his trial (translated from Cree) 103
- Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear, the prisoner, the prisoner in the dock 104
- Mis-ta-hah-mis-qua, Big Bear, the prisoner, the prisoner in the dock, a sort of chief 105
- Tape E 106
- VI Epilogue 110
- A remarkable new jail 111
- Every one will be satisfied 112
- Tape F 114
- Rough Work: From frenchman who defended prison to Riel 117
- Rough Work: Although holding foolish and peculiar views concerning visions as to prophecy 118
- The rebellion is now a thing of the past, it is now a page 119
- 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) 120
- Endnotes 121
- Literary Sources 122
- Acknowledgements 124
- About the Author 125
- Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press 126