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Between Two Fires: Jerry Potts and the Crisis of the Canadian West (1840–1896)

Between Two Fires: Jerry Potts and the Crisis of the Canadian West (1840–1896)

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 STRIFE! History’s Conflicts Podcast. What is the cost of a world? The plains of the Canadian West are not empty—they are a living map of stories, kinship, and spirit, a world that is about to be erased. As bison herds vanish into robes and whiskey floods the land, a single man stands on the fracture line: Jerry Potts, born of a Kainai mother and a Scottish trader. He is the translator, the guide, the rope in a tug-of-war between two fires—one of ancient reciprocity, the other of cold, encroaching empire. Every decision he makes—to guide the red-coated Mounties, to soften a treaty’s cruel terms, to whisper an escape—ripples through a collapsing world. This is not just the conquest of land, but the unraveling of a cosmology, where survival becomes a desperate, contradictory art. Listen, and walk the impossible line between loyalty and betrayal, where a man’s soul becomes the battlefield for the future of a continent.
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