First Nations Genocide
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Like my native aunts and uncles? Or my mother in law who was the woman I was talking about in residential school? Bite me petros. No one living in Canada has sole claim to having been influenced by its past.
Ah, but petros, Canadians are and have always been a kind and gentle people who would do no ethnic group any harm. We have always had equality for all - haven't we?
I was responding to personal attacks. What do you want to know? I have lived with the aboriginal people of several communities for years. I thought this perspective was under represented here. It doesn't mean I think it is the absolute truth. I don't know enough about vaccines to dispute what others have to say about it.
I have found that it is easy to dispute any point of view. I'm not into arguing every minuscule nit picking point of contention. I really think it is a waste of time.
Family by marriage. Nice try.
Why not bring this front and center and bring Canada's past's blame right where it should sit. In the lap of the English.
Are you English Karrie?
Some are family by blood, and some are family by choice.
And no, I'm not English. I'm Canadian.
As for placing blame petros... blame was placed. Blame was placed on churches, and the government. Blame was placed, payment demanded. It did nothing. Blame gets us nowhere apparently. It's a pity that more people can't let go of looking to the past, and worry about a workable future for their family, their neighbours, their friends.
I saw the headline and thought this was about the 1700s (and onwards) attempts by Europeans to get rid of a few clans they didn't like.
Not enough PhysEd by the looks of your skinny arms. Your tongue is too red considering your face is extremely pale. You must have been abused at school.
?? Some got new cars and stuff, but others invested the money in projects like the sawmill near Penticton, they built a service station almost across the road, and that's just one small band.
Not all of us live on park benches and blow any money we can get on booze.
Truth huh? Got a video of yourself walking backwards through 10 feet of snow? Your truth must just be believable to folks who buy bridges but can never seem to get gov'ts to hand over the deeds to them.
Maybe it was different in Penticton but in the remote communities it did exactly what the elders said it would do.
Made the bootleggers rich and filled the jails.
lol
I think I made my first working set of snowshoes when I was 8 or 9. My Dad showed me how to bend the wood. The lacing I figured out myself as I had already been doing tanning and leatherwork before. They made mobility through snow a lot easier, but I wouldn't even think of trying to walk backwards in them. The ones I have today are a lot lighter and I can walk backwards with them.
There are always exceptions. I know there are some that used their money to get better communication systems, medical systems, and stuff.
See a few natives in a bar getting drunk so they must all be like that right?
Thats one thing I never saw north of Churchill was snowshoes,when I first went up I allmost brought mine with me and its a good thing I didnt,it would have been like a big NOOB sign.
I did bring big ice crampons for my boots but didnt need those either,the snows so bloody hard you can walk a d9 cat over it in a few hours after it sets up and cyrstalizes in the cold.
Ah so you are English and bear guilt. I'm not English French or Spanish so why should I bear any guilt or sympathy for that matter?
So when a kid in private school today is required to X hours of "housekeeping' every week it's slavery?
I'll try to shed a tear when somebody from Stony who got an education and paid out rolls by in a new truck while I read a lousy plaque in Kananaskis.
There were no bars in the part of the arctic I was in,or booze stores.
You went to the RCMP to order your monthly allotment for "religious" ceremonys.
If you were the town drunk and on the cops black list you went to a bootlegger and paid $250.00 a bottle.
I didnt see just a few natives,there was only a few kablunas at any of the camps I was at,the rest were local Innu from Repulse bay through to Whale cove.
As a construction worker at one camp I partied with the boys some nights,as a camp manager I saw all the booze and drugs smuggled in to camps.
To say there isnt a problem and its just a stereotype is to ignore there is a problem.
Nunavut has the highest youth suicide rate in the world,theres a problem.