Book launch: In Search of Almighty Voice: Resistance and Reconciliation

At the request of the One Arrow First Nation Elders, Bill Waiser’s book In Search of Almighty Voice: Resistance and Reconciliation will be launched at the One Arrow First Nation powwow.

Date: Saturday, August 21
Time: 1 pm 12 noon (following the Grand Entry)
Location: Gabriel's Bridge, One Arrow First Nation

In October 1895, the North-West Mounted Police arrested Almighty Voice for killing a cow. He escaped from custody and killed a pursuing NWMP sergeant rather than surrender. With help from family and friends, Almighty Voice eluded capture for the next nineteen months. Then, in May 1897, he was surrounded in a bluff only a few miles from his home reserve and defiantly held off the mounted police, killing three more people before his refuge was shelled by cannon.

In Search of Almighty Voice: Resistance and Reconciliation (Fifth House Publishers) offers a fresh account of the incident—a difficult task because of the conflicting source material and the need bearing on reconciliation efforts today. The book also examines how the story has been told over the past 120 years. Almighty Voice has been maligned, misunderstood, romanticized, celebrated and invented.

Dr. Bill Waiser (PhD) is a distinguished professor emeritus in the University of Saskatchewan’s Department of History. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905—winner of the 2016 Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction—and Saskatchewan: A New History. Bill was appointed to the Order of Canada, named to the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and granted a DLitt from the University of Saskatchewan. Most recently, he was presented with the Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media (the Pierre Berton Award) and the Royal Society of Canada’s Tyrrell Medal for outstanding work in Canadian History.

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