1 The Trial, the Treaty, and the Terror: The Battleford Hangings and the Rise of the Settler State (Recording)
The Battleford Hangings and the Rise of the Settler State
James Daschuk
The largest mass execution in Canadian history took place in Battleford in 1885. The event was designed to create the maximum amount of fear in the First Nations population and signaled the imposition of a new and draconian order in the relationship between Indigenous people and the state. A century and a half later, the hangings and their impact still reverberate in the land we know as Saskatchewan.
