Image of Chief Jacob Johnstone (Kah-kee-ka- pow)
Database ID | 27755 | |
Institution | Saskatoon Public Library Local History Room | |
Fonds/Collection | General Photographs Collection | |
File/Item Reference | LH-2236 | |
Date of creation | [19--?] | |
Physical description/extent | 1 photograph; b&w; 8 cm X 14 cm | |
Number of images | 1 | |
Scope and content | Image of Chief Jacob Johnstone (Kah-kee-ka-pow), Cree, of the Mistawasis reserve, located approximately 20 miles west of Shellbrook, Saskatchewan. Chief Jacob is standing out of doors near a log fence, and is wearing treaty medals. Johnstone was the chief of the Mistawasis reserve from 1904 to 1915. He received a fractured jaw in a Cree-Blackfoot battle at Buffalo Lake that permanently disfigured his face. Inscription on back of original postcard reads, Chief Jacob- who had his lower jaw fractured by a bullet when he refused to join Riels' rising in the west. The Chief loved a game of cribbage. | |
Restrictions on access | There are no restrictions on access. | |
Contributer | unknown | |
Copyright holder | public domain | |
Other terms governing use and reproduction | Credit Saskatoon Public Library - Local History Room. | |
Type | Archival | |
Primary Media | Photographs | |
Provenance Access Point | General Photographs Collection | |
Place | Mistawasis First Nation, Saskatchewan, Canada Shellbrook, Saskatchewan, Canada | |
Treaty boundaries | Treaty 6 | |
Cultural region | Plains | |
Names | Johnstone, Jacob Kah-kee-ka-pow Riel, Louis, 1844-1885 | |
Subject | Chiefs People -- Portraits Northwest Resistance Postcards | |
Date Range(s) | 1910-1919 1920-1929 1930-1939 | |
Permanent Link | https://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/permalink/27755 |