Canada and the First Nations: A history of broken promises
St Paul, Alberta, Canada – Scattered across a rolling prairie landscape in northeastern Alberta are small towns, hamlets and First Nations reserves, most within just a few minutes’ drive of each other. But the neighbours here are living worlds apart. In one world are members of the white-majority settler community, whose local heritage is traceable to an average of five generations. In the other are the Indigenous people whose ancestors have lived here for millennia. They are old foes whose suspicion of one another dates back more than a hundred years. Sacred, spiritual pacts During the ...
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