Frog Lake is a

Cree The Cree ( cr, néhinaw, script=Latn, , etc.; french: link=no, Cri) are a North American Indigenous people. They live primarily in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations. In Canada, over 350,000 people are Cree o ...

community of the

Frog Lake First Nation The Frog Lake First Nation ( cr, ᐊᔨᑭᓵᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ, ayiki-sâkahikan ) is a First Nations band government in northern Alberta. A signatory to Treaty 6, it controls two Indian reserve In Canada, an Indian reserve (french: réserve i ...

approximately east of

Edmonton Edmonton ( ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region. The city an ...

Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest T ...

, Canada. It is located northeast of the Hamlet of

Heinsburg Heinsburg is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within the County of St. Paul No. 19. It is located approximately north of Highway 45 and northwest of Lloydminster. John Heins, an early postmaster, gave the community his last name. Demog ...

and southwest of the

Fishing Lake Metis Settlement Fishing Lake Métis Settlement ( cr, Packechawanis) is a Métis settlement in northern Alberta, Canada within the Municipal District of Bonnyville No. 87 and Treaty Six lands. Fishing Lake Métis Settlement was settled by inhabitants of the d ...

. Frog Lake has 2,454 band members as of August, 2007. Frog Lake has a

reserve Reserve or reserves may refer to: Places * Reserve, Kansas, a US city * Reserve, Louisiana, a census-designated place in St. John the Baptist Parish * Reserve, Montana, a census-designated place in Sheridan County * Reserve, New Mexico, a US ...

population of approximately 1,000 residing on-reserve.

History

Frog Lake was the scene of the

Frog Lake Massacre The Frog Lake Massacre was part of the Cree uprising during the North-West Rebellion in western Canada. Led by Wandering Spirit, young Cree men attacked officials, clergy and settlers in the small settlement of Frog Lake in the District of Sas ...

of which nine

white White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White ...

men were killed by Cree

Indigenous people Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...

on April 2, 1885 in the course of the

North-West Rebellion The North-West Rebellion (french: Rébellion du Nord-Ouest), also known as the North-West Resistance, was a Resistance movement, resistance by the Métis people (Canada), Métis people under Louis Riel and an associated uprising by First Natio ...

.W. Stewart WALLACE, ed.
- The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. II, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 411p., pp. 401-402.

References

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