Although purged from mainstream history, Canada had its own deadly witch hunts as destructive as anything that happened in Salem.
He had come to document some of the continent’s last examples of autonomous Indigenous life before they disappeared in the cultural “breakdown” of the new highway. “North of the Peace , the Indian still lives largely as did his forefathers,” heThe 30-year-old academic would spend much of the next two years with communities comprising the Kaska First Nations, an inland Athapaskan people whose traditional territory ranges roughly from Lower Post, B.C. to Ross River, Yukon.
One man, Sam Bob, told of family members who had fled the area to save the lives of cousins accused of witchcraft. Beal Carlick, a member of the neighbouring Tahltan, told of encountering a screaming, bound child who had been left to die on a Dease Lake beach — one of a series of women and children who had apparently been left to that fate.Article content
As at Salem and countless witch trials held throughout early modern Europe, accused witches often tried to redirect suspicion at someone else. “A mature person often sought to escape the charge of bewitchment by leveling suspicion on a child,” he wrote.Article content Only in 1924 did the RCMP finally dispatch a three-member expedition — led by veteran Mountie Theodore Sandys-Wunsch — into the Kaska regions to investigate. It was no easy feat; setting out from Vancouver, the officers had to first take a steamship to Alaska, a river barge to Telegraph Creek, and then weeks of canoeing and hiking until they reached what is now Lower Post.Article content
“To the Indians and Eskimos, practices frowned on by civilization are considered proper,” read an account in theof Popular Mechanics. “Indians still under spell of witches,” read a 1932 feature on the murder syndicated in newspapers across Canada and the United States.
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