Link Byfield, Historical Revisionist

Link says: "The historical fact is that after Ottawa stood by and let the Natives wipe out the last remaining Canadian buffalo in the Cypress Hills in 1879, the empty western plains soon filled up with unfenced cattle ranches bigger than present-day Toronto. These were owned and operated by newcomers from Britain, Canada and the U.S. -- the Waldron, the Cochrane, the Oxley, the Northwest Cattle Co., the Beresford, the Bar U." Excuse me: Natives wiped out the last remaining buffalo? Sure the Natives hunted buffalo; but they were not responsible for wiping them out. That was already done by the western expansion of American and Canadian railway barons, mercantilists and settlers. Tell that to Poundmaker, Old Crow, and the rest who testified to the destruction of the buffalo with the coming of the white man. And Ottawa didn't stand by, but encouraged the destruction of the plains buffalo in order to expand the CPR which opened the west to the Big Ranchers. Read the rest of the article at: http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2005/07/link-byfield-historical-revisionist.html [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on July 25, 2005]

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