An advance party of Crees had stumbled upon a Peigan camp and decided to attack instead of informing the main Cree body of their find.
The Kainai speak a language of the Algonquian linguistic group; their dialect is closely related to those of the Siksika and Peigan.
It was named in honour of the sacrifice of the wife who threw her baby, then herself off the mountain in reaction to the death of her war-chief husband as a result of a battle which took place between Peigan and Blackfeet warriors.
In 1878, Sheran lived common-law with a Peigan woman named Mary Brown, and they had two sons together: Charles and William.