Event Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2021
- Nov 16 - The White Man Governs
- Nov 17 - Almighty Voice: "The Outlaw Indian" How the killing of a settler's cow in 1895 sparked the Almighty Voice incident, culminating in his brutal 1897 shelling death
- Nov 18 - The Road to Truth and Reconciliation
From Resistance to Reconciliation will examine the history of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations in Saskatchewan from the late nineteenth century to the present through the life and legacy of Almighty Voice. A Willow Cree born two years before the signing of Treaty Six in 1876, Almighty Voice experienced the 1885 North-West Rebellion as an adolescent and came of age during the years of starvation and deprivation on the One Arrow reserve in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The twenty-one-year-old became Canada’s most wanted “Indian outlaw” when he killed a North-West Mounted Policeman in October 1895. The Almighty Voice story—and how it has been told—speaks directly to the need to confront some hard truths about Canada’s colonial past, in particular how racism informed Canada’s relationship with its treaty partners and shaped its Indian policies. Almighty Voice was a galvanizing figure in Native-newcomers relations. Understanding why he mattered has a direct bearing on reconciliation efforts today.
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