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The people of the plains

Paget, Amelia Anne McLean: 1867-1922. Born at Fort Simpson on the Mackenzie River, daughter of W.J. McLean; with her family a prisoner of the Cree during the rebellion of 1885; married Frederick Paget of the Department of Indian Affairs; commissioned by the Canadian government to obtain Cree folklore, 1906 ( Winnipeg Free Press , February 11, 1922; Morgan, Dominion Annual register , 1885; Who's who in Western Canada ; Wallace, Dictionary of Canadian biography ). // Scott, Duncan Campbell: 1862-1947. Dominion civil servant; poet; for many years connected with the Department of Indian Affairs in Ottawa (Wallace, Dictionary of Canadian biography ). // Also published, Toronto: Ryerson Press, [1909] (199p.). "The four tribes inhabiting the provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, which are described…are the Crees, Saulteaux…Assiniboines and Sioux" (introduction).

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