And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, October 27, 2014
Dog Child, a North West Mounted Police scout, and his wife, The Only Handsome Woman, members of the Blackfoot Nation, Gleichen, Alberta, ca. 1890
What interesting names... The teepee looks machine sewn!?!
ReplyDeleteSamurai Sword?
ReplyDeleteGood questions. To late to ask anyone who was there.
DeleteActually they did have treadle sewing machines then, so it's within the realm of possibles.
DeleteGreat picture! Love his coat.
ReplyDeleteThat piece of cutlery Dog Child is holding certainly looks like a katana.
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