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To be a Black person living in Saskatchewan is to be perceived as an ephemeral anachronism at best understood in relation to the groups of refugees moving through or the odd highly-skilled immigrant professional who, for some reason, decided to stay. At worst, to be a Black person living in Saskatchewan is to be a punchline, a joke.
Any other history of Blackness in the Prairies doesn t compute, although there are two centuries of it that reflect different waves of migrations and movements. This history has only very recently begun to receive external attention.