The lynching of Louie Sam [DVD video]

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Title:

Added Author:

McIlwraith, David.

Publication Date:

2007

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Abstract:

Reveals how, in late February 1884, a lynch mob of a hundred American men crossed the border into British Columbia, forcibly removed a wrongfully accused 14-year old Native boy from the custody of a Canadian constable, rode south a few miles and hanged him from a cedar tree. Discusses how for the Sto:lo First Nation, a people living along British Columbia's Fraser River, this was a defining moment in their history. Also notes the ineffectual response of the Canadian government to this crime, and brings to light the only documented case of a cross-border lynching in Canadian history.

General Note:

Based on "The Lynching of Louis Sam," B.C. Studies, No. 109, Spring 1996, pp. 63-79, by Keith Thor Carlson.

Technical Details:

Region 1, widescreen presentation.

Personal Subject:

Sam, Louie, -1884.

Subject Term:

Stó:lō -- Violence against -- British Columbia.

Murder -- British Columbia -- Fraser River Region -- History -- 19th century.

Lynching -- British Columbia -- History -- 19th century.

Lynching -- Washington (State) -- History -- 19th century.

First Nations -- Violence against -- British Columbia.