Date of Graduation
1972
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Type
PhD
Department
History
Committee Chair
William D. Barns
Committee Co-Chair
John R. Williams
Committee Member
David G. Temple
Committee Member
Edward M. Steel
Committee Member
William T. Doherty
Committee Member
Elizabeth Cometti
Abstract
This paper contends that the Stoney (Assiniboine) people of southwestern Alberta, Canada, have a legitimate aboriginal claim to areas in the North Saskatchewan River headwaters known as Bighorn and Kootenay Plains, located between the first range of the Rocky Mountains and the Alberta-British Columbia boundary. The Stoneys appear to have followed two routes during their eighteenth-century westward migration from southeastern Manitoba. One group moved southwestwardly to central Montana, turning northward into the Alberta Rockies; while the other seems to have travelled along the prairie-parkland fringe, entering the mountains west of Edmonton, with one band taking possession of the upper North Saskatchewan Valley by the late 1820's.
Recommended Citation
Larner, John William, "The Kootenay Plains (Alberta) Land Question And Canadian Indian Policy, 1799-1947." (1972). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 9253.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/9253