{"id":56348,"date":"2018-05-02T15:29:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56348"},"modified":"2018-05-02T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:29:12","slug":"a-dirty-deed-fort-mcmurray-metis-demand-apology-after-historic-eviction-of-an-indigenous-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56348","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A dirty deed&#8217;: Fort McMurray M\u00e9tis demand apology after historic eviction of an Indigenous settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/fort-mcmurray-metis-want-apology-for-moccasin-flats-1.4634161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>&#8216;A dirty deed&#8217;: Fort McMurray M\u00e9tis demand apology after historic eviction of an Indigenous settlement<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBC News<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Broadcasting Corporation<\/a><br \/>\n2018-04-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBCDavid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>David Thurton<\/strong><\/a>, Mobile Journalist<br \/>\n<em>Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.cbc.ca\/i\/caffeine\/syndicate\/?mediaId=1218355779774\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span class=\"mce_SELRES_start\" style=\"width: 0px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; display: inline-block;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\">\ufeff<\/span><span class=\"mce_SELRES_start\" style=\"width: 0px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; display: inline-block;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Moccasin Flats is the unresolved story of how at least 12 Indigenous families were evicted or relocated from a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_McMurray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fort McMurray<\/a> riverside community in the late 1970s to make way for a city expanding feverishly to accommodate <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oil_sands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oilsands<\/a> growth.<\/p>\n<p>That history still pains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcmurraymetis.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fort McMurray M\u00e9tis<\/a> president <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcmurraymetis.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gail Gallupe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was really a dirty deed,&#8221; Gallupe said. &#8220;To be ignored and to be treated so shabbily in those days. There was so much discrimination and so much racism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Fort McMurray M\u00e9tis local announced it will commission an academic study that aims to clarify details of the contentious removal of the predominantly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">M\u00e9tis<\/a> settlement for oilsands development&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/fort-mcmurray-metis-want-apology-for-moccasin-flats-1.4634161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moccasin Flats is the unresolved story of how at least 12 Indigenous families were evicted or relocated from a Fort McMurray riverside community in the late 1970s to make way for a city expanding feverishly to accommodate oilsands growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,8,3015,26,842],"tags":[3238,21842,13560,14458,28596,28598,28597],"class_list":["post-56348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-politics","category-videos","tag-alberta","tag-canadian-broadcasting-corporation","tag-cbc","tag-cbc-news","tag-david-thurton","tag-gail-gallupe","tag-moccasin-flats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56349,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56348\/revisions\/56349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}