And we think we're sooooooo good.
Even this, is probably just another scratch on the surface of much more hidden truths.
So you proud kanadians who preach they live in the best country in the world,still proud?????
kanada has a long history of native child abuse. Still proud????
Its time we flip this country upside down.
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I think you know me enough by now that when I say.........the past is in the past........you will understand that the most important thing right now is the .......Future. The future for your children and the next generation and the next generation and at the same time bringing justice for those in the past so that all they went through had a purpose.
The First Nations people and I have said this many times, need to get together as ONE.......undefeatable, unbreakable, and with a solid leader and make the changes through whatever means. There is an election in the horizon......now is the time.
Yes the past, must be revealed in all it's horror. I do find it interesting that although it has been in the media, there has been little said after the occasional article. If this had happened to other races, specific ones, I'm willing to bet it would have been all over the print media and TV and talk shows for weeks and weeks. The same with the DNA findings about the First Nation people starting out west, proving how long they have existed on this land. Hardly a mention.
When it comes to Idle No More, it proves to me anyhow that the First Nations people need to band more together. It seems to have died off and that's not good. The bigots and the racists are using its absence for their own cannon fodder. If one wants to break a rock, you have to keep hitting at it over and over and over until it cracks in two.
As far as "Canadians" are concerned, there are a LOT of people who not only agree with you and First Nations people, but they have put themselves on the line for it as well. Don't forget them.
As for the governments, well you are right they are all the same. What I would like to see is a PM put instead of appointing a Minister of Indian Affairs, appoint a group of Native elders from each Province as the 'Ministers' (for lack of a better word). No one from the outside can judge, or really know, what a people need, because they haven't............ lived it!
It would take too long to explain to you. Maybe you should take a trip to a Reservation and ask them.
Art. these children in residential schools were taken away from their parents who many never seen again, their names changed and punished if they spoke their language or any Native rituals. Their life was cruel and if they had enough vitamins is highly debatable.
These children should not have been used as convenient guinea pigs, without their parents permission. This was a government 'experiment', the same bureaucracy that put them in the position they were forced into. Children had milk cut from their diets just to get a 'base line' for the researchers. Some children were given vitamins while others weren't.
First Nations people were hunter gatherers and farmed as well. Their health was good and they were well fed as they had been for centuries upon centuries. When the whiteman arrived they were taken off their agricultural land and into areas were hunting was scarce or totally different from their natural diet.
The most important sentence in the article is......."Instead of recommending an increase in support, the researchers decided that isolated, dependent, hungry people would be ideal subjects for tests on the effects of different diets." These were innocent children who were used like lab rats. Unacceptable in an era.
A good idea…..etc etc
You are correct that all people are the same, but my point was that those who are responsible for the Native people, have never been Native. When the person in charge of a minority of people is part of ruling majority, how much real justice do you think is going to happen? None. That is the way it has been since the first European set foot on N. American soil.
There is an Assembly Of First Nations that is supposed to represent all natives in Canada…..etc etc
That also is true, the same as the representatives for all other people are suppose to represent those in small communities and Provincial and Federal and yet they disagree as well. I’ve said many times, including to Native people in person, that what they need is a strong cohesive force from coast to coast and then, Canada will have to either begin to negotiate in true good faith or go down in history for yet new atrocities.
The natives may think they own all the land currently called Canada. Good luck on that one. DNA or no DNA - the land will never go back to the natives. Too many people have too much to lose.
They do? Really? Who said that? Where have you ever read that the First Nations people want all the land and want to take it away from non-Natives? Personally I’ve never heard that, but I am sure there is probably some very angry First Nations people out there who may at times feel that way, out of pure frustration from both history and present. To broad brush the people by saying “The natives” is misleading at best.
What First Nations people do want, are settlements in longgggggg ongoing fights for Native land and treaties. They want certain land back that was unjustly taken from them. They want their land and streams on existing land unpolluted by the manufacturing done by the Federal governments approval to big corporations. In the case of BC where a majority of the land was proven to have never been relinquished by the Native people they want a Lot more say over what happens to BC land.
I’m curious puck,…..if you suddenly found out that through your family history you owned, oh lets say 10,000 acres of land…….would you fight for it? Would you fight for what is your heredity? Would you fight for justice?
Many native bands have reached agreements with the government of Canada……They are simply proving that they are human like the rest of us. Putting their own needs ahead of the needs of everyone else.
Certainly there have been land claims and other things settled between the government and the Native people, and some from the past, have been broken by the Federal governments.
You have used the phrases……. “putting their own needs ahead of the needs of everyone else” and “They, like us, are generally more interested in their own personal situation. As long as they have what they want or need, they are not overly concerned with the rest.”
You make it sound like that’s a bad thing. Do you not think that after all they have been through from genocide, to loss of children, to poverty, to being treated as second class human beings.....and the list goes on and on and on, that they deserve to think about themselves for once, since no one else cared in the past …….and the present. When someone creates anger……don’t be surprised if they get anger in return. But even with all that said, the Native people for the most part are not full of hate, they simply want justice for the past and the future.
Dotties is angry. He's seen a lot and been through a lot. I can understand his anger. Inside though, he is not irrational.
I had to laugh at the "Canadian thing". Do you really think that's the "Canadian" type of person? Don't add me on that list.
