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too, when the enemies came over to attack him, he would kill one or two. It would drag
the dead body over and make a fort with the enemies’ bodies.

Brokenknife just told the enemy just to kill him after they killed his warriors. They told
him you can go home. Brokeknife refused, he didn’t want to go back to his people and let
them see him like that. He was all spotted with gunpowder. He said to the enemy, “just
kill me”. They said no.

Brokenknife said “I’ll give you this feather”, so he gave them his feather that was on his
head. All warriors have feathers on their heads, and in their hair. So he gave them his

feather, and he said, “I give you permission to kill me”. He said, “at least you can give me
that wish to be killed by a warrior”.

So they killed him but part of his body walked out from the fire and he appeared down
the road. Brokenknife said, “You know I’m still here and you haven’t killed me”. So they
had to try and kill him down the road where he was. They made another fire and they put
him on there to burn him. He said, “This time you all watch around the fire, so I won’t
walk out again, even my bones will walk out”. So they really watched around the fire, to

make sure that he was dead.

Finally they killed him, that’s how come he’s buried over there. They just dug a hole at the
spot where he took on a bunch of enemies by himself. Towards the end he was one man
unto himself. He was the only one that took them on, all alone. They knew that the other
warrior got away and he made it back to Tsuut’ina. He told the story to his people. He
told them the story of Brokenknife taking on a bunch of enemies on his own.

Brokenknife was covered in black from the powder in the guns. It’s not like today with
automatic guns. They had old fashion guns that they loaded with powder. The powder
will stick to your skin. They said he was just black from where the powder they used to
shoot at him.

There was one that escaped. There was a woman and her baby boy sitting on the hill. She
was watching the fight from a distance. She was praying for that one man who escaped.
He was crawling towards the horses so nobody can see him. The women saw him and she
was sitting there praying for him to get away safely. She was praying for her baby boy to
grow up to be a man. She was praying for him to get through. So she got up and chased
the horses towards him so he won’t be seen. So the Crees can only see the horses. That’s
how one of them survived.

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