Tuesday, October 28, 2008

We Shiloh Residents Are Not "Settlers"

We are not "settlers" and Shiloh is not a "settlement" even if this gets published:-

African-American settlers made a home in Saskatchewan

A little-known piece of Saskatchewan history is about to receive a high honour.

It's a history steeped in slavery, segregation, civil war and the emancipation of African-American families who received free land in Canada.

All that remains of Saskatchewan's only black pioneer settlement is a log church nestled in a grove of trees, a cemetery stippled with simple white crosses and a handful of descendants who've worked to save it all.


The proper term is revenant.

Revenant.

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