Trump’s push to control Greenland echoes US purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867
On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his ...
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“Women of the Fur Trade” uses biting satire to examine our colonial past
From February 8 to 23, the Firehall Arts Centre is presenting Frances Koncan’s Women of the Fur Trade: a sharp, satirical ...
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Echoes of the Past: Fur trading post on Rosebud Creek
Before the present day known settlements were built along the Yellowstone River, fur trading posts were built to accommodate trade between the American Fur Company and the Native Americans of ...