Fine Day


Fine Day
Indian Name: Kamiokisihkwew http://www.historytelevision.ca/chiefs/htmlen/cree/sp_fineday.asp Fine Day earned a great reputation as a warrior in the days of inter-tribal warfare and during the native uprising of 1885 was the war chief of his band. He had been a skilled hunter and trapper. As he grew older his reputation as a powerful shaman increased. When Maskwa demurred at imparting some of his supernatural experiences (for to speak of one's own shamanistic powers overmuch is to court disaster), he seriously said, "I am sure that old Fine-day is not afraid when he speaks of the spirit powers. He is brave in all things. And Fine-day did give the desired information. Cooperative, intelligent, wellversed in many phases of the culture. This paragraph copied from http://www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/Plains_Cree/part3-e.html This link gives the description of the Battle of Cut Knife Hill where Fine Day commanded the native forces against Col. Otter. http://www.alittlehistory.com/NativeRb.htm (You will have to click on Rebellion Start from the left menu and scroll down to the battle of Cut Knife Hill)

Indian Name: Kamiokisihkwew

http://www.historytelevision.ca/chiefs/htmlen/cree/sp_fineday.asp

Fine Day earned a great reputation as a warrior in the days of inter-tribal warfare and during the native uprising of 1885 was the war chief of his band. He had been a skilled hunter and trapper. As he grew older his reputation as a powerful shaman increased. When Maskwa demurred at imparting some of his supernatural experiences (for to speak of one's own shamanistic powers overmuch is to court disaster), he seriously said, "I am sure that old Fine-day is not afraid when he speaks of the spirit powers. He is brave in all things. And Fine-day did give the desired information. Cooperative, intelligent, wellversed in many phases of the culture.

This paragraph copied from http://www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/Plains_Cree/part3-e.html

This link gives the description of the Battle of Cut Knife Hill where Fine Day commanded the native forces against Col. Otter. http://www.alittlehistory.com/NativeRb.htm (You will have to click on Rebellion Start from the left menu and scroll down to the battle of Cut Knife Hill)