Louie Sam
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Louie Sam
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Louie Sam was a Stó:lō youth from an Indigenous community near Abbotsford, British Columbia who was lynched by an American mob. Sam was 14 at the time these events occurred. He had been accused of the murder of James Bell, a shopkeeper in Nooksack. The people of his band, today the Sumas First Nation at Kilgard turned him over to the B.C. government to settle the matter. Following this, an angry mob crossed the border into Canada on February 24 and captured Sam, who had been in the custody of a
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date created:
2006-03-02T17:01:22Z
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2024-09-03T14:34:41Z
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