S3: The Mounties Always Get Their Land (Part 1)
The Secret Life of Canada
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The North West Mono Police and the Treaty Process
The creation of the north west mono police was just as much political as anything else. Canada did try to show the first nations and mate people in the area around cypress hill they would punish these american men who were responsible for a massacre. Entire generations of indigenous people were being wiped out on the plains. Missionaries reported desperate children walking through the snow without enough clothing to beg for food. Cree women in particular, were generally responsible for hunting small game in addition to gathering. So when the bison started declining and hunger was on the rise, they started hunting gopher. Clearing a path for the railway and subduing indigenous people was so important that johnny mac donald became
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