Talk:Michel Band

The Michel Band "stub" does not include much information on the family's origin. Louis Kwarakwante Callihoo, was employed by the Northwest Company, at age 19. He travelled between the Northwest Territory and Montreal for three years, then took a wife. After her death, he returned to Kahnawake and took a second wife ... the sister to his first. Later on, he married a third wife, "Katis la Sekanaise", beginning a third inter-tribal family. Since then, the family which originally began as Mohawk has branched out, to include Cree and Metis. There are many different renderings of the "Kwarakwante" name, and several of the "Callihoo" name.

In 1932, after five years of legal, political, and financial pressure, the Callihoo family was forced off the reserve. Victoria Belcourt Callihoo, widow of Louis Jerome Callihoo, then took up residence near Villeneuve, renting a farm from a man named McLeod. He had a small general store there; he later hired a man named Charles Marvin Baird, who had married Victoria's daughter, "Alvina" or "Alice". The Depression was survivable for those who still had land to farm, because fresh food and produce were available, at least in limited quantities.

But for those who had no land, no place to live, and no job to go to, life was brutally hard. Many Treaty Six people survived, but they did not prosper. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.53.181.154 (talk) 03:16, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Internal contradiction
The following paragraph contains two versions of history. Can someone familiar with this subject eliminate the least-attested? (The French royalty angle seems most likely to be apocryphal.)

"Michel band, composed of Iroquois and their leader, called "Yellowhead", travelled from the east to avoid assassination because of a bounty offered by the American government for provable deaths of Iroquois people.[citation needed] Iroquois Yellowhead was rumoured to be a descendant of the French Crown from a period when the Iroquois were invited and visited the French King. He, Yellowhead, believed he had to leave the east to avoid being assassinated during the French Revolution, because of his rumored connection to the French aristocracy."

Laodah 22:48, 18 January 2022 (UTC)


 * and any ways there seems to be another contradiction - Yellowhead waould have been 70 years of age at the youngest when he met with Father Lacombe to get reserve. Lacombe did not come to Edmonton area until Yellowhead was 70 and had been in Alberta for 50 years. 2604:3D09:8880:11E0:0:0:0:7044 (talk) 22:29, 29 March 2024 (UTC)