The violence began when construction crews on Waddington's Road entered the territory of the Tsilhqot'in nation without permission, after members of the First Nation had been working on road construction and going without compensation, being lied to time and time again, near starvation.
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Mar 21, 2023 ˇ The Tsilhqot'in Nation declared war in defense of their territory and people. Map of BC - 1868. A late 18th-century map of British Columbia.
Smallpox had recently hit Victoria and as Waddington's team started making their way north, they carried the virus with them, spreading it to the Tŝilhqot'in.
The "Chilcotin Uprising" was a disturbance which broke out in April of. 1864 when a group of Chilcotin Indians massacred fourteen workmen on.
Mar 27, 2018 ˇ Author John Lutz described a mid-18th century event in which a Tsilhqot'in raiding party had attacked a Carrier village as part of an apparent ...
Mar 27, 2018 ˇ On the one extreme, there is a conspiracy theory that the Tsilhqot'in were battling a genocidal British plot to depopulate the colony with germ ...
After a blockade, negotiations began but were derailed over the Tsilhqot'in desire for the right of first refusal to logging activities. After talks broke down, ...
The Chilcotin War happened happened because a crew of white settlers working for Alfred Waddington started building a road through Tsilhqot'in land.
Nov 10, 2020 ˇ ... the six Tsilhqot'in War Chiefs who were wrongfully arrested, tried and hanged during the ...
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The events which sparked the Chilcotin War began in the spring of 1864. Some Tsilhqot'in people, smallpox survivors, were still ill and starving when they came ...
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