1885 hangings at Battleford
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The hangings at Battleford refers to the execution of death sentences on November 27, 1885, of eight Indigenous men for murders committed in the First Nations uprising that occurred at the time of the
A news article from the December 14, 1885, Saskatchewan Herald describing Judge Charles Rouleau, who sentenced the men to hang at Battleford.
A headstone placed at the mass grave of the Battleford Eight.
Wandering Spirit was a war chief of a band of Plains Cree. There is little information on Wandering Spirit's life. Most of what is known begins shortly before the 1885 Frog Lake Massacre and ends with
Wandering Spirit in The History of the North-West Rebellion of 1885 by Charles Pelham Mulvany
