Western Standard - August 06, 2026


There's a whole other history to the settlement of Alberta we haven't been told....


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1 minute

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139.71

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171

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00:00:00.000 What you just said there is not what I understand happened in Canada.
00:00:08.640 What you just said there is that the Indigenous people in Alberta invited people to settle
00:00:17.040 these lands. This is an example of how Eastern history is told and dominates and we don't tell
00:00:25.120 western history so we those of us you and i uh we are invitees of treaty we were invited here
00:00:33.360 by the act of treaty we we didn't put our elbows up and steal the land that's not what happened
00:00:38.720 that's not our history and i think people don't realize that so just to clarify you're saying
00:00:44.080 that's not what happened in alberta right it could be what happened in other provinces in different
00:00:49.920 timelines. In earlier days, there might have been more of that sort of brute force colonialism.
00:00:58.320 But by the time we get to settling Alberta, there's actually a good relationship. And we're
00:01:04.160 invited here to help basically protect the indigenous and Canada, the beginning of Canada,
00:01:11.840 from the Americans.