![]() ![]() They were also waiting, without much help from the distant federal government, for reassurance that Their old life as fur traders and carriers for the Hudson’s Bay Company was disappearing, along with the bison on which they too depended. Meanwhile the Métis people - still feeling vulnerable after their Red River uprising in ManitobaĪ decade earlier - had grievances of their own. Leading chief of the Siksika, founded a confederacy to try to solve their people’s grievances. In 1880, Cree chief Mistahimaskwa (Big Bear), and Isapo-muxika (Crowfoot), Much of their land had also been signed away in treaties, and they were now seeing towns, farm fences and railwaysĪppearing on the once expansive prairies. The great bison herds had disappeared, pushing people to near starvation. Kainai, Piikani, and Saulteaux - were facing disaster. By the late 1870s, the Plains Indigenous nations of the West - the Cree, Siksika, ![]()
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