Some of these resources are either Powerpoint or PDF documents and are quite large. They will be downloaded to your computer. The PDF files should open in Adobe Reader if it is installed on your computer.

Timeline Powerpoint (Choose Save to hard drive, then open Powerpoint from Start menu to use)

Big_Bear This PDF file comes from the book Saskatchewan Indians and the Resistance of 1885: Two Case Studies by Blair Stonechild and is used with permission of the author.

Poundmaker This PDF file comes from the book Saskatchewan Indians and the Resistance of 1885: Two Case Studies by Blair Stonechild and is used with permission of the author.

Half-Breed Rising on the South Saskatchewan This PDF file recounts the memories of Patrice Fleury and Charles LaViolette as told to William Campbell.

Notes on the Duck Lake Fight This PDF file recounts the memories of Harry Ross, Deputy Sheriff in Prince Albert as told to William Campbell.

Here are some extra links to interesting documents on the web

Account of the 7th Fusiliers (not actually in battle) This document consists of a number of scanned images of pages of the diary of Alexander Campbell. Campbell made sketches of all the places he encountered and tells the story of the journey to the west. Many of the troops had a hard time taking the train to the West because some stretches of track north of Lake Superior were not completed. Men had to march or take sleighs across the frozen lakes in bitter cold weather. http://library.usask.ca/northwest/campbell/campbell.html

Here's another short description of the train trip out West http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/trains/kids/h32-1030-e.html

Battleford Beleaguered, 1885: the story of the Riel Uprising from the columns of the Saskatchewan Herald http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.asp?id=2746 This site consists of newspaper articles from the Saskatchewan Herald. It is very slow loading and a bit hard to read since each page is a separate image file.

Inspector Dickens - Fort Pitt http://www2.memlane.com/djcarter/dickens/default.htm

This account was written by Major General T. Bland Strange who marched up from Calgary with the Alberta Field Force. He caught up with Big Bear's Band at Frenchman's Butte. His scouts, headed by Sam Steele, later chased the band as far as Loon Lake.

When reading the documents below, remember that much of what he describes in Part I and the beginning of Part II comes from the reports of others.

Part 1 describes the first part of General Middleton's advance from Qu'Appelle to Fish Creek, as well as Otter's march to Battleford and the battle at Cut Knife Hill.
Rebellion Part I http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/revoltx1.htm

Part II describes Strange's march from Calgary, as well as continues the description of Middleton's exploits. (A word of caution - at the beginning of this second part is a description of events in the Frog Lake Massacre that I have never seen in any of the eye witness accounts)
Rebellion Part II http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/revoltx2.htm

Account from the Queen's Own Rifles of the attack on Poundmaker at Cutknife Hill by Lieutenant-Colonel Otter http://www.qor.com/history/northwest.html Here is a picture of the officers in the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, who accompanied Otter to Battleford and fought in the battle of Cut Knife Hill http://www.qor.com/history/nw-officers.html

Account from two veterans attached to General Middleton's forces about the capture of Riel http://folklore.library.ualberta.ca/dspImage.cfm?ID=345&Current=1

The Canadian West http://www.archives.ca/05/0529_e.html

Journal of Sam Steele (trek west in 1874 - not about the rebellion but interesting information about the start of the NWMP in the West) http://www.ourheritage.net/Steele_pages/Steele_Journal1.html