:49:07
He never spoke in public again.
:49:10
That night,
when we watched Archie strip away...
:49:14
all pretense of being an Indian,
:49:16
I knew that what he was saying
was far more important...
:49:19
than who he really was.
:49:22
Afterwards, he slipped
silently into the night...
:49:25
and went back to his remote cabin
on Lake Ajawaan.
:49:29
He died there,
suddenly, of pneumonia...
:49:31
two years later, in April, 1938.
:49:36
In recognition of what Archie
was trying to achieve,
:49:40
the North Bay Nugget agreed
to hold my story while he lived.
:49:44
They ran it the day after he died,
:49:47
and it made front page
all over the world.
:49:51
Pony never stopped campaigning
against trapping...
:49:53
and, slowly, because of
what she and Archie did,
:49:56
there were laws passed
to protect the beaver,
:49:59
and they returned to the lakes
and streams of Canada.
:50:03
But once his true identity
was revealed,
:50:06
Archie's early warning
about the natural world...
:50:09
about keeping it safe
for future generations...
:50:12
was quickly dismissed
and then conveniently forgotten.
:50:18
Only many years later...
:50:21
when the truth could
no longer be ignored...
:50:23
did he come to be seen...
:50:26
as a man ahead of his time.
:50:40
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