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Big Bear

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role in Native American history

  • Navajo Supreme Court justices
    In Native American: The Numbered Treaties and the Second Riel Rebellion

    …by the Plains Cree leader Big Bear, who persuaded the leaders of other nations to join him in requesting adjoining reserves. Their request was denied on the grounds that it would create an indigenous nation within a nation, which had of course been exactly the goal Big Bear wished to…

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  • Navajo Supreme Court justices
    In Native American: The Numbered Treaties and the Second Riel Rebellion

    …1884, at the suggestion of Big Bear, more than 2,000 people convened for a pan-tribal gathering. Although tribal leaders had been quietly meeting for years to arrange the scheduling of bison hunts, this was by far the largest indigenous gathering the Canadian Plains had seen. Government agents subsequently prohibited inter-reserve…

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