Tête Jaune aka. Pierre Bostonais aka. Pierre Hastination (died 1828) an Iroquois

Iroquois

The Iroquois , also known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the Longhouse", are an association of several tribes of indigenous people of North America...

-Métis

Métis people (Canada)

The Métis are one of the Aboriginal peoples in Canada who trace their descent to mixed First Nations parentage. The term was historically a catch-all describing the offspring of any such union, but within generations the culture syncretised into what is today a distinct aboriginal group, with...

 trapper/furtrader/explorer who worked for the North West Company

North West Company

The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in what was to become Western Canada...

 and Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company , abbreviated HBC, or "The Bay" is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and one of the oldest in the world. A fur trading business for much of its existence, today Hudson's Bay Company owns and operates retail stores throughout Canada...

 during the 18th and 19th centuries. His nickname (which means yellow head in French

French language

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) was given to him because of his blond hair.

In the early 19th century, Pierre crossed the Rocky Mountains

Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains are a major mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern United States...

 by the pass which would later bear his name

Yellowhead Pass

The Yellowhead Pass is a mountain pass across the Continental Divide of the Canadian Rockies. It is located on the border between the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, and lies within Jasper National Park and Mount Robson Provincial Park....

. He led a brigade of Hudson's Bay men through the same pass in December 1819 to encounter the Secwepemc

Secwepemc

The Secwepemc , known in English as the Shuswap people, are a First Nations people residing in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Their traditional territory ranges from the eastern Chilcotin Plateau and the Cariboo Plateau southeast through the Thompson Country to Kamloops and the Shuswap...

 people. Pierre would later move his cache from the Grand Fork of the Fraser river

Fraser River

The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Mount Robson in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for , into the Strait of Georgia at the city of Vancouver. It is the tenth longest river in Canada...

 to a Secwepemc fishing village

Tête Jaune Cache, British Columbia

Tête Jaune Cache is an unincorporated rural area and the site of an important abandoned historic town in British Columbia, Canada. Its population is approximately 500. It is located on the Fraser River in the Robson Valley at the intersection of Yellowhead Highways 5 and 16...

 on the Fraser. He and his family were killed by members of the Dunneza

Dunneza

The Dane-zaa are a First Nation of the large Athapaskan language group; their traditional territory is around the Peace River of the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada...

 in 1828 near the headwaters of the Smoky River

Smoky River

Smoky River is a river in western Alberta, Canada. It is a major tributary of the Peace River. The descriptive name refers to the presence of "smouldering beds of coal in the riverbank" noted by the Cree Indians....

, in retaliation for Iroquois encroachment into Dunneza territory.

For a list of places named after Tête Jaune, see Yellowhead

Yellowhead

Yellowhead may refer to:*Tête Jaune aka. Pierre Bostonais aka. Pierre Hastination, trapper and explorer of Western Canada*Yellowhead Pass mountain pass and Nationa Historic Site, Alberta and British Columbia*Yellowhead County, Alberta...

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