EPISODE · May 6, 2022
Colonial Violence, National Myths, & the Lynching of Louie Sam
from History Slam Podcast · host Activehistory.ca
On February 24, 1884, Louie Sam, a Stó:lo teenager, was accused by an angry mob of starting a fire that killed James Bell, a shopkeeper in the settler community Nooksack, in what is now Whatcom County, Washington, which borders British Columbia. Without any evidence, the assembled mob determined that Sam was responsible and, despite him […]
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