by General Philip Sheridan's infamous statement to Tosawi of the Comanche, "The only good Indians I ever saw were dead." Although Canadians also took part in the Cypress Hills Massacre, it remains overlooked in western Canadian history. Even though it took place in Canada, the massacre represented a temporary extension of American frontier mentality into the Canadian northwest. In fiction A fictionalized account of the events of the Cypress Hills Massacre is told in the novel The Englishman's Boy by Canadian author Guy Vanderhaeghe. The story focuses in part on the character of the "Englishman's boy", one of the members of the party of wolfers. While little is known of those involved in the actual event, the novel attributes the cause of the massacre to one Tom Hardwick, the "lead" wolfer. The book was made into a miniseries that first appeared on CBC Television in March 2008. The movie The Canadians was another fictionalized version. The Cypress Hills Massacre is also used as the plot centrepiece for the Terrance Dicks novel Massacre In the Hills which charts the beginning of the NWMP. See also List of massacres in Canada List of conflicts in Canada References Further reading Google books Allen has been Deputy chief, Treaties & History Research Centre, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs in Ottawa Hildebrant, Walter, Hubner, Brian (1994). The Cypress Hills: the land and its people. Saskatoon: Purich Publishing. . Daschuk, James (2013). Clearing the Plains: disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life. Regina: University of Regina Press. . Friesen, Gerald (1987). The Canadian Prairies: a history. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. . Older sources Sharpe, Paul F. (1954). "Massacre at Cypress Hills: A Whoop-Up County Preview." The Montana Magazine of History 4 (1): 26–41. External links Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan North-West Mounted Police 1873 in Canada Conflicts in 1873 June 1873 events Massacres in 1873 Canada–United States relations Disasters in Saskatchewan Conflicts in Canada Maple Creek No. 111, Saskatchewan Massacres of First Nations Crime in Saskatchewan National Historic Sites in Saskatchewan American frontier Indigenous conflicts in Canada Violence in Canada Métis in Saskatchewan Assiniboine people Legal history of Canada 1873 crimes in Canada