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Reimer, Chad.
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Sam, Louie, -1884.
Lynching -- British Columbia -- History -- 19th century.
First Nations -- Crimes against -- British Columia -- History -- 19th century.
First Nations -- Violence against -- British Columia -- History -- 19th century.
Sumas Prairie (B.C. and Wash.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Sumas Prairie (B.C. and Wash.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Sumas Prairie (B.C. and Wash.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century.
British Columbia -- History -- 1871-1918.
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Reimer, Chad.
Sam, Louie, -1884.
Lynching -- British Columbia -- History -- 19th century.
First Nations -- Crimes against -- British Columia -- History -- 19th century.
First Nations -- Violence against -- British Columia -- History -- 19th century.
Sumas Prairie (B.C. and Wash.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Sumas Prairie (B.C. and Wash.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Sumas Prairie (B.C. and Wash.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century.
British Columbia -- History -- 1871-1918.
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Deadly neighbours : a tale of colonialism, cattle feuds, murder and vigilantes in the far west / by Chad Reimer.
by
Reimer, Chad.
Caitlin Press, 2022.
Call #:
364.134 R363d
Subjects
Sam, Louie, -1884.
Lynching
--
British
Columbia
--
History
--
19th
century
.
First
Nations
--
Crimes
against
--
British
Columia
--
History
--
19th
century
.
First
Nations
--
Violence
against
--
British
Columia
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Sumas Prairie (B.C. and Wash.)
--
Social conditions
--
19th
century
.
Sumas Prairie (B.C. and Wash.)
--
Race relations
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Sumas Prairie (B.C. and Wash.)
--
Ethnic relations
--
History
--
19th
century
.
British
Columbia
--
History
--
1871-1918.
ISBN:
9781773860732 (pbk)
Description:
216 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"A revealing and thoughtful examination of one of Canada’s most shocking and misunderstood moments of
violence
--
the lynching of Louie Sam. On a cold night in February, 1884, just north of the border on Sumas Prairie, BC, an Indigenous boy named Louie Sam was lynched by a mob of mounted vigilantes. The vigilantes had ridden up from Nooksack Valley in Washington Territory, hell-bent on avenging the murder of one of their neighbors, which they had pinned on Sam. The American origin of the mob, and the fact that Sam's murder was one of only two recorded lynchings in Canadian
history
, have led historians and writers to represent it as an isolated and foreign incident
--
disconnected from people and events north of the border and an aberration from the norm of Canadian
history
. When placed within the context of that time and place, the murder of Sam no longer appears to be an isolated and foreign incident. Rather, it emerges as the result of a series of events and causes on both sides of the border, with the active participation of locals in both BC and Washington Territory. Deadly Neighbours takes a closer look at the lynching, and in so doing reveals a more complex and disturbing chronicle of the deadly grip the leading White settlers in Nooksack and Sumas held over the area
--
and most notably, over their Indigenous neighbors."--Publisher.
Genre:
True crime.
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