St. Vincent Memories

Abraham Lincoln as the Puppetmaster of Death (of starvation, war, and executions) Ledger Art  by Travis Blackbird by Prairie Rose ...

Father Goiffon I n 1861, Joseph Goiffon , a missionary at Pembina , wrote that a Dakota runner passed through the area on his way to th...

P resident Cleveland once asked Bishop Whipple what would be the effect of making the Indians voters. Then Bishop Whipple told him that it...

Found via Google Books, aka "the researcher's friend" The following excerpt highlights a pharmacological discovery by uni...

I discovered this film on the National Film Board of Canada website today, which I was not aware of before. I think it has a lot to say, th...

I started this post to be about Major E. A. C. Hatch 1 (sometimes referred to as Edward Hatch, or Edwin Hatch...) But a much more interes...

Ezra Woodruff was the first post surgeon at the new Fort Pembina , arriving in May 1870 as the post officially opened, with the first post ...

EPILOGUE Charley Brown was sheriff of the Pembina area, Dakota Territory from 1875 until his death in 1884. The hangings by the Fort Pembi...

Click on the image above to see easier-to-read larger version... I have written of it before - the Treaty of Old Crossing . The paintin...

In 1832, Anglican missionary William Cockran tried to convert Red River Natives to Christianity and a life of farming. The plan failed. Coc...