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

Iroquois The Iroquois ( ), also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the Endonym and exonym, endonym Haudenosaunee ( ; ) are an Iroquoian languages, Iroquoian-speaking Confederation#Ind ...

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Haudenosaunee The Iroquois ( ), also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the Endonym and exonym, endonym Haudenosaunee ( ; ) are an Iroquoian languages, Iroquoian-speaking Confederation#Ind ...

Métis The Métis ( , , , ) are a mixed-race Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces extending into parts of Ontario, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and the northwest United States. They ha ...

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 Dunneza in 1828 near the headwaters of the Smoky River, in retaliation for Iroquois encroachment into Dunneza territory.

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Tete Jaune Yellowhead Sculpture by Paul Van Imschoot

Places named after Tête Jaune: * Tête Jaune Cache, British Columbia *

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* Yellowhead Pass, in Jasper National Park,

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Canadian writer Howard O'Hagan (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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