“Then, one of them reports that one of their horses has been stolen. They also unfortunately arrived too late to do much about the wolvers. They served and protected white settlers, denying First Nations, Métis and Inuit self-determination with force. This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. Some historians peg it around 20 people killed, or slightly more. It’s also not helpful to the process of reconciliation. The Assiniboine were camped at the bottom of a coulee, or valley, and made easy targets as the wolvers shot down from the lip of the embankment. The horrific mass shooting in Nova Scotia has sparked questions about whether it’s the deadliest shooting in Canadian history — but tragedy on a similar scale has happened at least once before. There’s the fact that in April, Winnipeg police officers shot and killed 16-year-old Eisha Hudson, then, less than a day later, Winnipeg police shot and killed 36-year-old Jason Collins. On July 4, 1875, the Montreal Star published a private letter received by “a gentleman in that city” from an unnamed member of the mounted police, sent from Fort Macleod in what is now southern Alberta. But this is one of the reasons why they created the RCMP ... Because, I mean, this stuff happened a lot, and nothing was ever done,” he said. The RCMP was created as a means to control Indigenous people. As authors Brown and Brown wrote in An Unauthorized History of the RCMP, “It (NWMP) was designed to keep order in the North West, to control the Aboriginal and Metis populations, and to facilitate the transfer of Indigenous territory to the federal government with (in theory) minimal bloodshed.”. As structured, the CPC depends on … “You’ve got to think of the Cypress Hills as sort of that last refuge on the prairies in the 1870s,” explains Bill Waiser, a distinguished professor emeritus of history at the University of Saskatchewan. Copyright © 2020 Multiply Media, LLC. The RCMP was created to quash the Indian rebellions. Copyright owned or licensed by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. Although a law to establish a police force had been passed, it hadn’t actually been created yet. This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. They’d also been drinking heavily, having passed by the trading forts en route. So in the fall of 1873, they quickly dispatch about 300 men to Western Canada,” Waiser said, noting they deliberately chose a route near the southern border. All Denying the truth of systemic racism within the policing forces in Canada is further oppressive and adds fuel to the fire of racist violence and beliefs toward minorities. The RCMP regularly enforce Crown-granted injunctions obtained by corporations to trample Indigenous rights like we recently saw when members of the Wet’suwet’en were forcibly removed from their homelands to make way for a pipeline.

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