Robert Goodvoice 8

Robert Goodvoice gives his account of the 1862 Minnesota Massacre. Goodvoice also describes the movement of a Dakota group to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan by the leader (transcribed) Tarasota towards Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Goodvoice also shares his account of Tarasota's reaction to the 1885 North-West Resistance and how it affected the Dakota in the Prince Albert District. Tarasota deciding to locate northward of Prince Alberta to avoid the conflict that was happening around the region. Goodvoice says ---------- "But Tarasota, he forced the people to follow him, that he is going to leave the Prince Albert district and go north and stay up in the north country till the war is over. At least a month after the war is over, then they will come back. And he got them to follow them. About twenty or twenty-five families. They went towards the north until they come to a road and he told them to follow that. And that road led to a place called (266). That is the way they called it. This river, (268), that means a river. Now it is known as Torch River. They co there and then they camped there for a few days." -------- Pg 4.