Posted on 12/19/2020 9:48:42 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
The first legal hanging in Alberta, Canada, took place on this date in 1879. Generations later, it’s still remembered as one of the province’s worst, and strangest, crimes.
The hanged man was a native Cree known as Swift Runner (Ka-Ki-Si-Kutchin) — a tall and muscular character with “as ugly and evil-looking a face as I have ever seen,” in the words of an Anglo Fort Saskatchewan officer. Whatever his comeliness, Swift Runner was on good terms with the frontier authorities, who trusted him as a guide for the North West Mounted Police. That is, until the Cree’s violent whiskey benders unbalanced him so much that the police sent him back to his tribe … and then his tribe kicked him out, too.
He took to the wilderness to shift as he could with his family in the winter of 1878-79: a wife, mother, brother, and six children.
But only Swift Runner himself would return from that camp....
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Looks just like Jack Palance playing Attilla the Hun in Sign of the Pagan (sans mustache).
Wendigo and skinwalker tales from native Americans is much better then Steven king. Pretty scary stuff.
Too much fire water.
Naw, this is just some scruffy blog written by a self-promoting
beat off artist eating Cheetos and looking for traffic.
Get a job.
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