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should not shrink from that, as we did for so long, not if we want to understand the situation we are in now. to clear the plains of the cree and blackfoot, so that they could not threaten the railway, macdonald and his government forced them onto reserves in the north. the cree and the blackfoot were buffalo
hunters and warriors. they lived in teepees, rode horses, danced the sun dance, sold pemmican and buffalo skins to the hudson bay company, and lived more or less as they pleased. when the buffalo were hunted out, and the cree and blackfoot were facing starvation, macdonald's indian commissioner, edgar...
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