below coal edmond our host is the former chief of this remote community in northern ontario, a fort albany. canada has more than 2000 reserves like this one they were set up in the late 19th century by the indian act. the law governing the indigenous population this racist build, made them 2nd citizens, separate from white people. ah. today they are known as 1st nations peoples. back then, they were savages. i am designated ash indian all lives inside i reserve to separate the we are hidden people of canada. here and here the government wants to call and reserve for the i call it my grandfather's land. the indian act is still applicable to day. it was introduced in an attempt to settle and thus better control and nomadic people along with their territory and resources. the reserves were run by nuns and priests, and their mission was to evangelize the savages to assimilate them while we're building it. a garden. if her pictures from the school, so this one is good, this is where the students girls and months. and these are the brothers are blade brothers. and hope that prisoners are here. i

i'm you know, i'm a soldier from the fort at albany, but group was not going to be deterred. they were like, look, we decided we going to tie him up and. we were going to and make sure that he couldn't attack us. so they tie him up. and this person who already told them that he was a soldier from the fort was quite adept at getting out of their bonds and he was able to escape. and and they wake up in the morning and he's gone. and so like, oh, no, this person we've he's he's gotten out of our hands. so they continue their journey on. and you can see this in his diary, he says that we saw him no more, yet we thought of him. and later on he continues to kind of discuss this with other people. he meets in albany. and so i wanted to of end with this note right idea of this fear and how fear doesn't just affect in 1690. right? it starts to continue on and people are using their experiences of runaway of of of trying to get people who are trying to self emancipate in order to inform this notion of fear and in the of the other in a place that is unfamiliar. all right. well, i want t

probably about half of its recruits on that retreat down to crown point and then fort ticonderogan ultimately into albany. through the summer of '76 there was a true question as to whether or not these canadian regiments would continue. canada was not choosing to join in this rebellion. so why would you have this other canadian regiment the original idea behind it was that it would be like all the other colonies that became states is it would have its own iteration of a regiment, but if it's not joining the rebellion, what are we doing with this regiment? ultimately, what happened? is that congress by september of 76 went back to hazen and he was really pushing for this and said, yes, we will reauthorize your second canadian regiment that you can recruit among the canadian refugees that were up around albany certainly recruit those that had come with the american forces to ticonderoga and the like but we're also authorizing you to recruit among all of the states. so here is another unique factor about this second canadian regiment is that it's allowed to recruit elsewhere. well this brings up the next po

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