Pierre Bostonais or Pierre Hastination (died 1828), better known as Tête Jaune, was an

Iroquois The Iroquois ( or ), officially the Haudenosaunee ( meaning "people of the longhouse"), are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of First Nations peoples in northeast North America/ Turtle Island. They were known during the colonial years to ...

(

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trapper,

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r, and explorer who worked for the

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and

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during the 18th and 19th centuries. His nickname means 'yellow head' in French and was given to him because of his blond hair. The name ''Bostonais'' (French for 'Boston man') refers to his probable American origin:

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people applied that name to American traders. In the early 19th century, Pierre crossed the

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by the pass that would later bear his name. He led a brigade of Hudson's Bay men through the same pass in December 1819 to encounter the Secwepemc people. Pierre would later move his cache from the Grand Fork of the

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to a Secwepemc fishing village on the Fraser.Mount Robson Provincial Park, Draft Background Report
September, 2006 He and his family were killed by members of the

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in 1828 near the headwaters of the

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, in retaliation for Iroquois encroachment into Dunneza territory.

Legacy

Places named after Tête Jaune: *

Tête Jaune Cache, British Columbia Tête Jaune Cache () is an unincorporated rural area and the site of an important abandoned historic town in British Columbia, Canada. Its population is approximately 500. It is located on the Fraser River in the Robson Valley at the intersection ...

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, in

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Canadian writer

Howard O'Hagan Howard O'Hagan (February 17, 1902 – September 18, 1982) was a Canadian writer.Ken Mitchell"Howard O'Hagan" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', April 10, 2008. One of the first significant writers to have been born in Western Canada, he was most noted ...

(1902-1982) published the novel ''Tay John'' (1939), named from an Anglicized form of Tête Jaune. The narrative is a mixture of frontier myths, indigenous tales and the history of Jasper National Park in Alberta. The novel was reprinted in 1960, 1974 and 1989 and became popular in Canadian literature courses across Canada.

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Biography at BC Metis Mapping Research Project
Iroquois people Canadian Métis people Canadian fur traders Métis fur traders 1828 deaths Year of birth missing Date of birth unknown {{NorthAm-native-bio-stub

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