Former Heroes Now Villains

The Northwest Mounted Police, once hailed for saving the West from U.S. annexation, were in fact paramilitary colonialists insensitive to Indigenous “political structures,” says a federal board. Parks Canada consultants who approved the revision included a cabinet appointee who deleted federal web pages celebrating the Mounted Police: “I feel very strongly.”

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