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Tomkins, Peter
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Peter Tomkins Jr., 1899-1970, was born on Poundmaker's Reserve in Saskatchewan, the son of Peter Tomkins Sr., 1865-1941, and his Cree wife, Marie Essawakapiw (Dent in the Grass Woman), ?-1944. His father had been imprisoned by Louis Riel in during the 1885 Northwest Rebellion, for repairing telegraph lines which had been cut the Metis. His mother had been Poundmaker's youngest wife. Pete Jr. was raised on several reserves where his father worked for the Indian Department, and was educatied in Winnipeg. He was fluent in Cree. He married Isabella Andrews and they settled in Grouard, Alberta where he worked as a blacksmith. He and Isabella had ten children. He was a founding member of the Metis Association of Alberta.