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Was Smallpox Weaponized against First Nations?

[S]ettlers in thrall to colonial ideology saw every unfenced meadow as waste land free for the taking, especially the most fertile land supporting native self-sufficiency. — Tom Swanky, The Smallpox War against the Haida (p 67). July 1, was recently celebrated in “Canada” as Canada Day by “Canadians.” The Dominion of Canada was formed by […]