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Paperback Big Bear: The End of Freedom Book

ISBN: 0803265662

ISBN13: 9780803265660

Big Bear: The End of Freedom

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Book Overview

When the white settlers came to western Canada, Big Bear realized that the Cree Indians' way of life was threatened, and he fought to prevent his people from being reduced to poverty-stricken outcasts in their own land. Although his protests were peaceful, he was labelled a troublemaker. Years of frustration and rage exploded when his followers killed the white people of Frog Lake, a tragedy Big Bear was powerless to stop. The old chief stood trial for inciting rebellion--though all he had sought was justice and freedom. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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The Little Known Story of the Sad Fate of Canada's Crees

Big Bear was a noble man who yearned for peace between the Red man and the White, but was caught up in the vortex of his time - a time when the whites pushed into the Cree lands along the Blue Canadian Rockies, when the white government in Ottawa was diffident to the fate of the Natives, when Canada's vast buffalo herds were slaughtered to near extinction, and when unscrupulous traders poisoned the Crees with Whiskey and Illness,...

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