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Originally Posted by the Shemp
poor people arent entitled to health care and housing and education, whats wrong with living on a sheet of cardboard under a bridge...maybe a little dumpster diving for a quick snack...mighty tasty, im sure...
as for the Indians, well they couldnt beat whitey, arrows against bullets is so unfair, Brad... but they became the pawns in a long term social engineering screwup, while their children were sexual playthings for the religious wingnuts at those wonderful residential schools...
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Thanks Shemp for clearing up some Canadian history there....I'd also like to add that Canadian Natives did NOT go to war against the colonization nations --the history of Canadian and American Natives is different in that way. They aided both the English and French in their fights against each other. But they never went to War against the colonization nations.
After that Canada institutionalized the Reserve Act and the Residential School Acts. The Reserve Act effectively made Natives prisoner to small areas of land, made it illegal for them to leave their Reserves without permission from the Indian Reserve Agents, made it illegal to sell their livestock or goods. Entire tribes were wiped out by TB, but those people weren't allowed to get medical care. In fact, often the colonizers were responsible for that by handing out blankets infested with turberculosis all in the name of 'helping' them.
The Residential School System allowed Native children to be taken from their home often hundreds of miles away -- they were placed in residential schools run by the Catholics and Protestants. Physical and sexual abuse was rampant - and more often then not those kids were never taught a damn thing that would help them in the 'real world'. The Residential School Act wasn't repealed until the late '60s or early '70s. Canada's history with its Aboriginal peoples isn't one to be proud of - it was one of cultural genocide.
It isn't the history you'll see taught in most of the books in academe -- I'd have to dig up my thesis but I've got some excellent references if anyone's interested.