Gifts from the Thunder Beings by Roland Bohr

Author:Roland Bohr [Roland Bohr]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Native Studies
ISBN: 9780803248380
Publisher: UNP - Nebraska
Published: 2014-02-11T05:00:00+00:00

After careful observation and planning, the Cree attackers were eventually in place and ready to strike. The events that unfolded after the attack began suggest a larger battle and not merely a small-scale skirmish:

So they attacked them about three o’clock in the morning. And they attacked the camp exactly where the men are, the hunters, the fighting men. And then they also attacked the camp of the chief, the leader. And it was this time that the story took place, the fearsome fighting that took place and the killing that took place, that this elder told us the story that was so cruel, that your spine would turn chill, how cruel these people can be. But they said the Inuit people have done the same thing to them many times before that. And this was just a lesson to make these Inuit people feel the same fear and the same helplessness when they attacked unexpected people, elders and children in their camp. It was more like a revenge and a lesson to them.

So the attackers were successful. They were able to disarm, to startle the soldiers, or the warriors, or the hunters who were skilful fighters and in that way they were able to eliminate their own casualties. And also they were planning, the leaders of the Omushkego fighters, the soldiers who were able to direct the kind of attack and the way to attack to overcome their enemy. And then it was said by this elder that each fighting Omushkego was to set themselves close to the tent to every hunter, outside to wait until there is a signal to attack. And they set themselves into position to each camp where there is a hunters, where there is some soldiers are supposed to be.30

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