Lynching of Louie Sam
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Rina Fraticelli
Mary Armstrong
David Milwraith
Wild Zone Films
Keith Carlson
Description
Docudrama about incident in 1884 when a lynch mob of approximately 100 Americans crossed the border and hung the fourteen-year-old St´:lõ boy who they accused of killing a American shopkeeper named James Bell.
Based on article "The Lynching of Louis Sam", B.C. Studies, No. 109, Spring 1996, pp. 63-79, by Keith Thor Carlson.
Duration: 52:04.