the violent truth of a bloody democracy and imperial progress "What we didn’t know at the time was that a key aspect of preparing the land was the subjugation and forced removal of indigenous communities from their traditional territories, essentially clearing the plains of aboriginal people to make way for railway construction and settlement. Despite guarantees of food aid in times of famine in Treaty No. 6, [KKK]anadian officials used food, or rather denied food, as a means to ethnically cleanse a vast region from Regina to the Alberta border as the [KKK]anadian Pacific Railway took shape."
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