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3. The Indigenous And The Hudson's Bay Company
Fri Mar 7, 2025, 10:47 PM
Mar 2025
https://canadaehx.com/2020/12/26/the-indigenous-and-the-hudsons-bay-company/

The Indigenous And The Hudson’s Bay Company

Podcast at link



The proclamation of giving all the land that drained into the Hudson Bay completely ignored the rights of the Indigenous who lived in those areas, effectively taking their land with the vast majority never realizing it. The signing of this decision across the Atlantic in 1670 would have long lasting consequences to the Indigenous that exist to this very day…



The aforementioned Simpson would write in 1821 that the Indigenous, quote:

“must be ruled with a rod of iron, to bring and to keep them in a proper state of subordination.”



(Hudson bay blanket)
is an object of beauty, a collector’s item that belongs to the Hudson’s Bay Company’s history. It is for many Indigenous peoples, still viewed as a trade item that once contained the gift of disease.”

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Stolen land/stolen labor
NOW Toronto

https://nowtoronto.com › news › reparation-land-and-justice-for-indigenous-peoples-is-long-overdue

Reparation, land and justice for Indigenous Peoples is long overdue
When the Hudson's Bay Company started buying and exporting fur pelts, it created such a demand in Europe that the most commonly trapped creature,



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