Safe haven

Ifound the article about Sitting Bull [“Refugee Crisis,” February-March 2017] most fascinating and timely considering the current Syrian refugee crisis. Canada has been as open as possible in receiving modern refugees from political/military aggression, and in the article we see revealed a similar reception of refugees from the same type of aggression in a different era.

What it must have been like to have three thousand refugees arrive in Western Canada, where several thousand Cree, Assiniboine, Blackfoot, and Métis were likewise suffering from the loss of the buffalo herds. And there were only some three hundred North West Mounted Police to keep order and peace. Yet they all found safety and peace in our Canada. It was for me a much more powerful story than the few paragraphs in my grade school Canadian history class. Thank you. Ivan Hall St. Albert, Alberta