Illustration shows a hanging scaffold with eight Indigenous men about to be murdered by Canadian officials. Families and children are made to watch. The largest mass execution in Canadian history took place at Battleford, Saskatchewan. Indian families from the surrounding reserves were brought to the Battleford barracks to witness the mass execution. November 27, 1885 Eight Indigenous warriors executed by the Northwest Mounted Police and local settlers. The judge who sentenced them had his house burned down during the resistance. Is it time to exonerate them? Illustration by James Smith of the John Smith Reserve in Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser. Available from Amazon
Today is the anniversary of a Canadian atrocity.
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