The Almighty Voice was a Cree outlaw that was killed in 1897 at the hands of NWMP Officers. He was seen as the Voice of the Great Spirit and his death was a symbolic representation of the tense relationship between Canadian Government and the Indigenous people.
He was originally arrested on October 22nd, 1895, for slaughtering a government steer and was transferred to jail. While in jail, an officer joked that he was going to be hanged for his crime and that night the Almighty Voice escaped jail taking the joke seriously. He fled back to his reserve and a week later the North-West Mounted Police tracked him down near Kinistino.
While attempting to arrest him in Kinistino, the Almighty Voice killed sergeant Colebrook and as a result, a $500 bounty was put on the capture of the Almighty Voice. This murder of a sergeant worried other police officer and Indigenous agents that it might lead to an uprising among the Cree population. The last straw for the NWMP was when on the 27th of May 1897, when the Almighty Voice and two of his relatives shot and wounded a Métis scout. As the shots hit the scout an inspector located him on a bluff. A shoot-out occurred as a result and three NWMP officer ended up getting killed.
Three days later on May 30th, 1897, around 100 NWMP officers attempted to capture the Almighty Voice and his allies on that same bluff where the shoot-out occurred three days prior. The gunfire presented by the NWMP officers resulted in the Almighty Voice and his companions getting killed.
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