Summary
400 Aboriginal people in the Qu'Appelle district forcibly took provisions from the agency storehouse after officials refused to provide them with rations.
Implications
Responses like this are evidence that Government Officials failed and withheld rations from Indigenous peoples, forcing them to take them in order to survive. Undoubtedly, the government would misconstrue this behaviour as criminal or violent, when in reality the government left Indigenous peoples with no other options.
Date
1878-03-00
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