Wandering Spirit (Cree leader)
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 the Canadian justice system's convicting him of murder and hanging him. However, there is some information regarding his role within the Plains Cree people.
The headstone marking the mass grave of the eight executed Indigenous men.
The Cree are a North American Indigenous people. They live primarily in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations.
A Cree camp, likely in Montana, photographed c. 1893
A group of Cree sun dancers, photographed c. 1893 by Frank La Roche
Nēhiyaw (Plains Cree) camp near the future site of Vermilion, Alberta, in 1871
Chippewa Cree Tribal Chairman Raymond Parker Jr. signs an agreement with the FEMA in Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, Montana on August 17, 2010.