Today in History

Nov 24 In 1807, Joseph Brant (1742-1807), Chief of the Six Nations Indians, died at Burlington, Ont. He fought on the British side in the War of American independence and later led his tribe to Ontario’s Grand River Valley. He was a Christian and translated Anglican services and scripture into Mohawk. In 1999, Reform MP Jack Ramsay was found guilty of attempting to rape a native 14-year-old girl at the Pelican Narrows police station where he was an RCMP corporal in command 30 years earlier. In 2005, a $5 billion deal for First Nations was announced at a meeting of first ministers and aboriginal leaders in Kelowna, B.C. In 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized on behalf of the government of Canada for abuse and cultural losses to former students…

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