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Week 2 Young Friends

The 6 to 8 year olds with some younger siblings visited Cut Knife Hill today as well as the site of the 1885 Battle of Cut Knife Creek.


















Then we returned and made bannock over the campstove and ate it with the
raspberry jam that was made earlier in the week. Yum!

Battle of Cut Knife Hill or How Cut Knife Got Its Name

Friday at Young Friends we acted out the story of the battle between the Cree and the Sarcee or "How Cut Knife Hill and the Town of Cut Knife Were Named".
A very brief summary of the story is as follows:
The battle took place about the 1850 - 60's when Chief Cut Knife/Broken Knife (depending upon translation from Cree) and a group of Sarcee came to attack the Cree settlement just north of the hill. They were discovered by the Cree and circled and killed except for some who returned to Alberta and reported the happenings. The Cree were impressed with the Sarcee Chief's bravery in battle and named the hill after him. When the European settlers were looking for a name for their settlement, they named it after the prominent hill just north of the townsite.

Siding for Duvall House

Lightning chased away a volunteer worker yesterday, but he was back on the job today!
The new siding makes the house look great!

Tale of Two Battles

The Young Friends kids visited Cut Knife Hill today. They are climbing the old monument of the 1885 Battle that was put up on the wrong hill.





Also we visited real site of the 1885 Battle of Cut Knife Creek where Poundmaker is buried.


After returning to the museum, we made bannock. The raspberry jam that was made on Tuesday was a perfect complement to the bannock. (Some people like a little bannock with their jam!)