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Newly declassified files expose a secret Cold War program by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, targeting Indigenous political groups with surveillance and informants. The program, known as Native extremism, monitored hundreds of Indigenous people and over thirty organizations, aiming to disrupt groups pushing for land claims and rights. Indigenous leaders like Georges Erasmus, who faced tailing and airport hassles, now have solid proof of the spying. Experts call it a massive rights violation, comparing it to counterinsurgency tactics. The surveillance started in the late sixties and peaked around seventy-five, focusing on groups like the Dene Nation. These revelations add to the Mounties history of overreach, leading to a royal commission and the creation of a new spy agency in eighty-four. Leaders today urge deeper probes into this colonial-era intrusion that bred lasting distrust.

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