‘Alive and well’: Wandering Spirit narrative reexamined at commemoration event

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‘Alive and well’: Wandering Spirit narrative reexamined at commemoration event

At Fort Battleford, there is a headstone with the names of eight men who were part of Canada’s largest mass hanging following the resistance of 1885. Among the names etched in the stone is Wandering Spirit. The mass grave, however, harbours a secret: beneath the earth, his body is not among those who lie beneath, but rather resides in a cemetery on a reservation in Montana. Pe-Pamasowe’t, the warrior known as Wandering Spirit, long understood by…