Prime Minister John A. Macdonald's government presided over the largest "legal" mass execution in Canadian history! Macdonald was Prime Minister from July 1, 1867 to November 5, 1873 and from October 17, 1878 to June 6, 1891.

September 25, 2010 was the 125th anniversary of the day in 1885 when the First Cree Warrior that took part in the Canadian Northwest Resistance was sentenced to death. Shortly thereafter, seven other Cree Warriors were convicted of treason and murder.

For their part in what Caucasians labeled "the Frog Lake Massacre," the starving Cree, Wandering Spirit and five other warriors: Round the Sky, Bad Arrow, Miserable Man, Iron Body, Little Bear, Crooked Leg and Man Without Blood, were convicted of treason. They were hanged on November 27, 1885, along with two other Cree convicted of murder - it was the largest mass execution in Canadian history.

This is what Sir John A. MacDonald, Canada’s First Prime Minister, had to say about the Indian situation in the United States and Canada in the Canadian House of Parliament, July 6, 1885.

"...that we have been pampering and coaxing the Indians; that we must take a new course, we must vindicate the position of the white man, we must teach the Indians what law is..." "...along the whole frontier of the United States there has been war; millions have been expended there; their best and their bravest have fallen. I personally know General Custer, and admired the gallant soldier, the American hero; yet he went, and he fell with his band, and not a man was left to tell the tale -- they were all swept away..."

Just prior to the executions, November 20, 1885, MacDonald included the following white supremacist gem in a letter to the commissioner of Indian Affairs: "The executions of the Indians ought to convince the Red Man that the White Man governs."

The first three URLs deal with the Northwest Rebellion - the fourth reveals the details of the largest "legal" mass execution in the United States, thirty eight Sioux were executed simultaneously under the Administration of President Lincoln!

Chief Poundmaker: http://www.danielnpaul.com/ChiefPoundmaker.html

Louis Riel: http://www.danielnpaul.com/LouisRiel.html

Chief Wandering Spirit: http://www.danielnpaul.com/ChiefWanderingSpirit.html

President Abraham Lincoln's Administration permits the Mass execution of 38 Sioux: http://www.danielnpaul.com/PresidentAbrahamLincoln-SlaveryAbolished.html