CHIEF POUNDMAKER aka PITIKWAHANAPIWIYIN
1842 – 1886
"It would be so much easier just to fold our hands and not make this
fight..., to say; that I, one man, I can do nothing. I grow afraid only
when I see people thinking and acting like this. We all know the story
about the man who sat by the trail too long, and then it grew over, and
he could never find his way again. We can never forget what has happened
but we cannot go back. Nor can we just sit beside the trail."
Pitikwahanapiwiyin’s dying and last words...
A NOTE: Born in about 1842 near Battleford in central Saskatchewan
Canada , Pitikwahanapiwiyin was the son of Sikakwayan, a Stoney shaman,
and his Métis wife. Pitikwahanapiwiyin grew up with his Plains Cree
relatives under the influence of his maternal uncle Mistawasis (Big
Child), a leading figure in the Eagle Hill (Alberta) area. In 1873
Isapo-Muxika (Crowfoot), Chief of the Blackfoot, following a Plains
Indian custom, adopted Pitikwahanapiwiyin to replace one of his own sons
who had been killed in battle thereby creating family ties between the
two First Nations.
Posted for you by,
Sir Richard
With LOVE to you all and with all that heaven will allow!
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