End of An Era

More than 2/3 of our people had died from the white man’s diseases and starvation within the space of two generations. Within a few years, we only had only reservations left of our original territory and the old ways were gone forever.

NEW ERA

The site of the original For Whoop-Up, now a federal historic site, is located on land owned by Mr. Al Hubbard Over the years, changes in the course of the rivers have eaten away much of the river bank and soon all evidence of the original location may be gone. In the summer of 1991, an archaeological excavation of the site was conducted by Dr. Margaret Kennedy and four  four students from The University of Lethbridge. The team carefully opened a number of small trenches across the site in order to determine the Fort’s original size and configuration. Please follow this link to continue on with Fort Whoop-Up era