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Canada's Darkest Secret: Residential Schools

Behind the Bastards

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Was There Any Oil in the Black Hills?

In 1879, Nicholas Daven traveled back to Canada after his time in DC and he wrote a report called report on the on industrial schools for Indians and half breeds. That's the official Canadian government term for the Métis people was half half breed. The short version of the story is that the Métes had rebelled against the government a number of times and the white people in charge didn't want to recognize them as real Indians because that would entitle them to land and hunting rights or all that stuff. So they they basically decide like look over at the United States waging a general side of war in the Black Hills and they're like, it's too loud. But yeah,

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