Henry Kelsey
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Henry Kelsey was an English fur trader, explorer, and sailor who played an important role in establishing the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada. He is the first recorded European to have visited the pres
Kelsey sees buffalo on the western plains
Iron Confederacy
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The Iron Confederacy or Iron Confederation was a political and military alliance of Plains Indians of what is now Western Canada and the northern United States. This confederacy included various indiv
Canoes of the Hudson's Bay Company
Shoshoni (left) and Cree women, 1840s
Portrait of Eeh-tow-wées-ka-zeet (He Who Has Eyes Behind Him) a Plains Cree warrior painted by George Catlin
A print of a Karl Bodmer painting published in London, UK in 1840. It shows an Assiniboine camp with teepees, travois, and horses