Bois-Brûlés
Bois-Brûlés (burnt wood) are
The Bois-Brûlés, led by their leader
William H. Keating described a group of
All of them have a blue capote with a hood, which they use only in bad weather; the capote is secured round their waist by a military sash; they wear a shirt of calico or painted muslin, moccassins and leather leggings fastened round the leg by garters ornamented with beads,&c. The Bois brulés often dispense with a hat; when they have one, it is generally variegated in the Indian manner, with feathers, gilt lace, and other tawdry ornaments.
— William Keating 1824[4]
Later in the 19th century, the people in 1869 came into temporary prominence during the
The name Bois-Brûlés seems to have waned in popularity and general use after the merger of the Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company in 1821. The young Canadian adventurer Martin McLeod, later a fur trader and Minnesota Territory politician in the United States, referred to the "Brules" in 1837 in his journal of travel to the Red River of the North region with James Dickson, who had a dream of an Indian empire.[6][7][8] As late as 1900, the American author Jack London used the term in his short story, "An Odyssey of the North".
See also
References
- ^ Joseph James Hargrave (1871). Red River. author. p. 488.
- ^ "La chanson des Bois-Brûlés". S.H.S.B. (Centre du patrimoine, 340, boulevard Provencher, Saint-Boniface, (Manitoba)). Archived from the original on 2015-11-06. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
- ^ "Songs of Old Manitoba (02) (The Dickson Song)". by Margaret Arnett MacLeod. Retrieved 2014-02-14.
- ^ William Hypolitus Keating (1824). Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's river ... &c., performed in ... 1823. p. 44.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 153.
- ^ Martin McLeod, The Diary of Martin McLeod, ed. Grace Lee Nute, Minnesota History Bulletin, Vol. 4, No. 7/8 (Aug. - Nov., 1922), pp. 351-439, 526 Minnesota Historical Society Press
- ^ Charles J. Ritchey, "Martin McLeod and the Minnesota Valley" Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine, Minnesota History Magazine, December 1929, accessed 21 Jun 2010
- ^ Grace L. Nute, "James Dickson, A Filibuster in Minnesota in 1836," in Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 10: 127-140 (September 1923)