[3] Steele Narrows[4] is a channel that separates Sanderson Bay from Makwa Lake.

[5] Wandering Spirit, the war chief leading the Cree military campaign, surrendered to authorities at Fort Pitt.

Big Bear, the aging peacetime chief of this band of Cree, eluded capture until July 2.

[6] In the spring of 2008, Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Christine Tell proclaimed in Duck Lake, that "the 125th commemoration, in 2010, of the 1885 Northwest Resistance is an excellent opportunity to tell the story of the prairie Métis and First Nations peoples' struggle with Government forces and how it has shaped Canada today.

"[7] The Battle of Loon Lake is commemorated today by interpretive signs placed by the Government of Saskatchewan and a plaque placed by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.