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Leyland Cecco in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario

Is a previously unheard-of First Nation just Canada’s latest Pretendian case?

Signs and flags are seen on the property of William Denby, Ontario, Canada, last month.
Signs and flags are seen on the property of William Denby, Ontario, Canada, last month. Photograph: Cole Burston/For The Guardian

The headquarters of the Kawartha Lakes First Nation sits off a single-lane highway 100 miles north-east of Toronto. Between signs advertising the sale of all-terrain vehicles, hand-scrawled messages on the three buildings decry government corruption.

At the centre of the lot, near signs for the “Redneck Church” and “Chief Willy’s Man Cave” stands a 26ft tipi. Alongside banners commemorating missing and murdered Indigenous women and the victims of Canada’s residential school system, Confederate flags flap gently in the wind.

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