Carry the Kettle elders and survivors accounts say that 300 of their ancestors died on the day of the massacre.

[6] In 1859, John Palliser's expedition identified the Cypress Hills as "Assiniboine country/territory" after meeting Blackfoot guides near present-day Medicine Hat, Alberta.

When Palliser asked the Blackfeet to join them on the trek into the Cypress Hills, they instantly refused.

Beef rations and other treaty known provisions were being dispersed in July and October 1879 at the Head of the Mountain.

After five failed attempts of obtaining a valid land surrender as per Indian act, chiefs man who takes the coat and long lodge are removed from their reserve in the cypress hills in what was described as a military escort to new reserves near Indian Head.

The construction of the Canadian pacific railway stops and newly created swift current for the winter.

The Nakoda chiefs Man Who Takes the Coat and Long Lodge return to their cypress hills reserve.

Pierces the eastern boundary of the original Assiniboine Reserve at present day Walsh, Alberta.

The Assiniboine band are loaded up on flat deck rail cart at Maple Creek station.

as Edgar Dewdney made his way into the Cypress Hills as the new Indian Commissioner and exercised the "duty to consult" in Treaties 4, 6, and 7 in 1879.

[11] The Nakoda elders refer to their ancestral home in the Cypress Hills as Wazihe (the mountain by itself).

[11] In 2000, the Indian Claims Commission ruled that Canada had no lawful obligation to Cega’kin (Carry the Kettle) and that no reservation was legally established at Cypress Hills for Assiniboine descendants from 1879 to 1882.

However the Fort Walsh Town Site had an Indian Affairs Office established in the Cypress Hills in 1879.

[13] Carry the Kettle sued the federal and Saskatchewan governments in December 2017 to halt development which would infringe on its members' rights to hunt and gather.

[14] In January 2020, it was announced that the nation would join Indigenous Bloom in a cannabis facility on reserve land.