Charcoal
At a glance:
- Series: Magill's Choice: American Indian Biographies, Revised Edition
- Categories: Crime
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Murder, Homicide, Execution, Assassination
- Curriculum: American Indian History, Canadian History
Article abstract: In what is regarded as a classic conflict between Indian and white society's laws, Charcoal was arrested and hanged for murder.
The Blood Indians of Canada's Alberta province represented the westernmost division of the Blackfoot Indian tribes. Under the terms of an 1877 treaty with the Canadian government, the Bloods, numbering about two thousand persons, were resettled on land known as the Blood Reserve. As a young man, Charcoal and others in the tribe hunted buffalo, while protecting their lands from other tribes, such as the Cree and Crow....
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