By Lisa Joy
Published by Prairie Crime Press
In May 1963, on the edge of the small Saskatchewan village of Glaslyn, a group of white men tore through an Indigenous tent camp in the middle of the night. Families fled into the dark. Tents were slashed, belongings scattered, and twenty‑year‑old Allan Thomas was found face‑down on the ground. He never made it to the hospital.
Nine white men were charged. None were convicted.
Drawing on RCMP files, court transcripts, witness statements, and long‑buried archival records, When the Tents Fell reconstructs the night of the attack and the systems that allowed it to happen — and to be forgotten. It is a story of racial hostility disguised as prairie neighbourliness, of labour exploitation, of silence, and of the families who lived with the consequences.
This is the definitive account of the Glaslyn attack — a stark, unflinching examination of a night that shaped a community and echoed far beyond it.
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