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Keep the 'British' in British Columbia
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By C.P. Champion THE HAIDA at the height of their power were the terror of the West Coast, seizing booty of all kinds in seaborne raids: goods, captive labour, trophy-women and -children—and bearing aloft severed heads and limbs. Their own oral history records disturbingly recurrent scenes in which they “destroyed the people, burned their town completely” and “took them also for slaves.” But in 1862 the Haida were nearly wiped out by smallpox, which arrived by ship with gold diggers from San Francisco. Few would be so churlish as to judge the Haida of today on the basis of their marauding...
From Katyn to Kamloops
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Mass unmarked graves have evil connotations especially in the 20th century. But there is a vast gulf between Kamloops and Katyn, or Babi Yar — writes C.P. Champion
Totally Bogus Viking Dudes
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Reviewers praised Neil Price's Children of the Ash for "rescu[ing] Viking history from the grasp of white supremacists ... not by asserting any sort of moral superiority for the Vikings ... but by restoring their rich and strange particularity." Even so, most reviewers missed the key bit of information about the Norse: that they were ultimately converted by Benedictine monks from England and went on to adorn Christendom in its most flourishing age — and that the Scandinavian countries continue (and not by accident) to be on the whole among the most civilized places in the world to live. Read on for the context: Updated...