The Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself Music & Dance Written as a simple rhyming

Written as a simple rhyming poem for elementary students in primary level grades partnered with teacher notes and suggested activities this book offers parents and teachers the opportunity to introduce children to the First Nations

ROBERT RENAUD is formerly a regional director of CBC Radio Ottawa

Guided Reading Level: X

was born in 1922

the Indian Act

The Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself Music & Dance Written as a simple rhymingWith an abundance of buffalo, other game, and lodge pole pine, the hills straddling the Alberta Saskatchewan United States border were a natural gathering point for First Nations and Mtis peoples. Their presence drew the Hudson Bay Company and American free traders, whiskey traders, and wolfers, resulting in a clash of cultures culminating in the 1873 Cypress Hills massacre, an armed ambush of a Nakoda camp by a group of drunken wolfers and whiskey