Chiefs hanged in 1864 Chilcotin War exonerated

Well, at this point in times, it's the best that can be done, I suppose. But . . . whoopee.

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I'll bet the chiefs feel sooo much better now.

So...no unhanging? Better than hiding them from history, but it seems a little too little, a little too late.

It might sound awful, but my default mode on hangings like that is that they were probably wrong. There was just too much injustice towards natives overall, so it all starts out as suspect to me.

It's good that yet another example has been spelled out by the authorities, but history books shouldn't dare try to whitewash all of that anyway. We all know too much about it, I'd think. It was a hideous time.

And it' still pretty damned bad in many cases, which are the parts that should make the mainstream news much more often if anyone wants to do something to help natives. I don't know about Canada, but in the US, we are woefully ignorant about the different treaties, responsibilities, even nationhood, etc, so we (in general) understand very little about what's still going on.

Xelebes said:

Perhaps, but you have to think of the current Tsilqot'in chiefs and the people who are living today.

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Yeah, this ^. On the day of the announcement, there was a piece in one of the local papers from an RCMP officer who had served in the Chilcotin area. He said that every time he stopped anyone, "You killed our chiefs!" was brought up, and being transferred from elsewhere, he didn't even know what they were talking about.
So, all in all, this won't help the dead, but it may help the living to know that at least the gesture has been made.