🦬 “Save the Buffalo, Shoot the Dene”: Under the guise of conservation, Canada set out to create national parks in the 1800s.

To do so, it forcibly removed the ancestral stewards of the land.

Ximena González explains the creation of Wood Buffalo National Park.

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‘Save the Buffalo, Shoot the Dene’ | The Tyee

A new book explores the dispossession of Dënesųłıné people during the creation of Wood Buffalo National Park.

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