Saskatoon Treaty Indians Supported by Chiefs
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Saskatchewan Indian, February 1988, p. 4
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Council presented concerns at the Chief's Assembly in Yorkton.
Discusses the exploitive circumstances of recruitment and how these methods fall within the definition of "trafficking in persons" under Canadian criminal law.
Disproves the commonly held belief that despite government efforts and assistance, reserve populations lacked the inclination or ability to farm.
Chapter five from The Prairie West as Promised Land edited by Chris Kitzan and R.D. Francis