oki = hola Canada Canada killing natives the Colony hung five of “The Chilcotin Chiefs” before a crowd of 250. This remains one of the largest public executions in Canadian history. They were executed, not from any source of justice, but as a public relations exercise in aid of terrorizing the surviving Indigenous population into submission. West Coast Native News On this International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, Aug. 9, it is appropriate to recall an especially pertinent part of Canada’s relations with the Indigenous Peoples of British Columbia. 149 years ago this August, the Colony of British Columbia ambushed “The Chilcotin Chiefs” at a political conference. This ambush soon served as a key part of the Colonial policy for displacing and dispossessing the Indigenous Peoples of what is now B.C. Two months later, the Colony hung five of “The Chilcotin Chiefs” before a crowd of 250. This remains one of the largest public executions in Canadian history. They were executed, not from any source of justice, but as a public relations exercise in aid of terrorizing the surviving Indigenous population into submission. The first ever official contact between the Tsilhqot’in and the Crown had taken place only on July 20, 1864, just a few weeks before the ambush. In the ensuing negotiations about relations between the two social entities, the Crown’s agents promised that the Colony would recognize the Head Tsilhqot’in War Leader as “High Chief” in Tsilhqot’in territory. Effectively, the Colony had promised to recognize the Tsilhqot’in regime as the sovereign power in its territory. shawnswanky/articles/canadas-war/the-lingering-moral-taint-in-canadas-claim-to-sovereignty-and-licensing-the-prosperity-mine/
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 01:48:23 +0000
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