Canada 150: Indigenous people remember dark past 

How much drugs have you done today?

Yes Canada should be following their own laws, the majority of Canada is unceded territory, specifically in the many territories in so called british columbia. We have never signed any treaties or given over our rights as people of the land.

I agree

Technically no one is entirely native to Canada except for animals. Indigenous Peoples came across a land bridge from Russia years and years ago.

The Caynuck technically no ethnicity is entirely native to any land on earth(except for maybe Africa?)

chdjim So much trouble

What about the progress they still do?

what about the french that got here as well? and murdered their fair share of native folks? as a matter of fact france still owns a lot of places all over the world

@@xosmokey Enough with your whataboutisms. Yes, other European nations also own certain places. However, the French settlers in Canada, while not perfect, generally traded and allied with the Indigenous Peoples, and the Acadians lived in near harmony with Indigenous tribes. English Canada has a far more extensive history in oppressing the Indigenous Peoples and this is still going on with the pipeline. And they only got rid of residential schools 20 years ago.

while preaching human rights

So did the Settlers and they won.

​@brittanyhayes1043 Really? Was that after the folks died out from Euro diseases?

@@brittanyhayes1043 Swords vs grenade 😰 I can't imagine how many indigenous people in the battle had died.😰

@@dunweyweydum Some countries surrendered, but some not.

More like Catholic

@Crazy Canuck oh sorry .. Yes 😁

Yeshua Hamashiach is God in the flesh, the Son of God, the Word of God, and he died so that you may be presented blameless in the sight of the Father. And so you may inherit his kingdom. The LORD Yeshua Hamashiach is the only way to the Father and his kingdom. Repent of your sins accept him into your life as your LORD and Savior before it's too late, every day is not guaranteed. John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me. May God bless you all.

This is Catholicism.

Power BlacksUnited are you implying all native peoples of the americas are a dark brown or reddish hue? There are hundreds of tribes in Africa who differ greatly, e.g., the Bantu peoples of the West and the San people of the South just like the Cree and Mapuche people are both native, but are very different. Oh and if you're implying he isn't Native because of his surname I'll tell you something you should already know - many of us were forced to adopt european last names.

Geez I wonder if Singapore wants to write cheques for free billions every year? um um um guess no support now hey keff?

@@adam-edtorres2260 shut up hes giving a compliment yet you tzke that as an insult

@@DoinThupidThings shut up

suj jok give up all your wealth and give it to Canadian natives.

why?they choose to be poor bro

@@GungeScleraEmpyaema Yes, we chose to be ripped away from our homes and put into reserves with horrible water treatment plants, it's our fault that so much of us died in residential schools due to low quality sanitation and medical care, physical, mental and sexual abuse against CHILDREN. having to put up with laws specially made to ruin our culture and punish us for even having the gull to stand up for ourselves. **COMPLETELY MY BAD EVERYONE**. Seriously how ignorant can you be?

Don’t, just support our word

do the right thing and leave

Why?

but europeans cant fight like men, they always attack the unarmed civilians

they write history books.. yes... TRUE. But so do losers of wars. My personal library is full of history books written by Iraqis, Palestinians, and many more. Please try to read a history book not written by a patriotic white male. You'll be surprised.

So Japan has no history books about WW2? You repeat things taught you but you gotta scrutinize the doctrines.

Hey, heres a history lesson for ya. After Pontiacs War, Native American sovereignty was recognized and applied to everything west of the Appalachian mountains by the British Empire in 1763 - which no law has overruled to this day. It was the French who lost the seven years war. Peace treaties were made with tribes and then later distorted in an unhonoured usufactory agreement. It was so that America would not annex Canada during confederation. Canada should be recognized as two sovereign nations.

Yeah and you people left out the stuff that we taught you like building

@@thelegendfatherofgiants3471 Only Giantdad is permitted to say Injuns. Everyone else deserves R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1.

You've been in Canada for over 50 years and you didn't know? How dense are you?

@@binnysan not many immigrants care to read up on Canada's history. Really they don't have a reason to.

@@Shivcel172 Bet you can tell me numerous things about other countries' history though, can't you? You know, thanks to school?

@@binnysan Yeah I know about countries that have had a long history that has impacted humanity as a whole like Egypt/China or countries surounding us like the U.S, but not every country. My background is Afghan, but I was born in Canada so I've been to Afghanistan multiple times and have an idea of what they know/think about Canada. I have cousin who up until I came along (I'm the first person in my family to be born outside of Afghanistan) thought slavery still existed in Canada, it was really weird trying to get them to understand it's not a thing anymore. They don't know much about Canada because they were never taught it in school, for multiple reasons. The first being Afghanistan is a third world country and most schools most likley don't have the funding to teach the history of countries that don't directly affect Afghanistan, second though I love Canada in comparison to the rest of the world it is a rather new country and hasn't existed for long meaning there hasn't been any huge impact by Canada that the rest of the world needs to note, and the most likely reason being Canada isn't involved in Afghanistan's history much especially these days. The most Afghan's know about Canada is what they hear on the new from time to time, which happens to be protests and stuff (which is why I think thought slavery was a still a thing), and the fact that Canadian troops were sent in a while back, but it's not like your average Afghan would see them on the regular. I'm using Afghanistan as an example, but of course every countrie is different, the point I'm trying to make is yes you learn about other countries but not every country. I doubt the average Canadian knows much about Afghanistan's history, for good reason. Now I'm not saying I don't want people who come to Canada to not learn about Canada's history, I do and I think it's a very interesting one, I'm just saying they don't really have a reason. They could continue living their entire life in Canada completely fine without knowing an ounce of Canadian history, to me it's kind of sad. My mom has been in Canada for 19 years and never knew anything about Canadian history until I started talking with her about it, and it has given her a new found respect for her new home. Many also just don't have the time, people who come here are probably trying to learn the language while attempting to get a job and probably have to provide for a family. Also just realized this is hella long I'm sorry.

We’ve given them billions of dollars, and formally apologized, I think that’s enough.

@@bumperbonnie5721 Bullshit

If you think so, your wallet begins to appear and pay in person instead of being generous with other people's money .....

@@Difensorfidei Well you don't think.... period. So stfu and stop spouting rubbish, ffs. 🙄

@@ryanhinks5515 So you speak, mr. insult ed avarice,,,,,,

Well said , its just unreal how many ppl and nations believe in fantasy

White Europeans*

People are entitled to their beliefs be it "god" or "great spirit" not entitled to abduct kids and deny their heritage and abuse them.

Yeshua Hamashiach is God in the flesh, the Son of God, the Word of God, and he died so that you may be presented blameless in the sight of the Father. And so you may inherit his kingdom. The LORD Yeshua Hamashiach is the only way to the Father and his kingdom. Repent of your sins accept him into your life as your LORD and Savior before it's too late, every day is not guaranteed. John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me. May God bless you all.

And LGBT

86% of indigenous women being murdered were murdered by indigenous people probably indigenous men. The other 14% were murdered not only by white people but black, asian, and other visible minorities.

I agree lol

As a native of Indiana, I feel a sense of pride when I see those.

@@DoinThupidThings Where are all the buffalo, shortbus??

@@DoinThupidThings White man's rifles, which function thanks to the Chinese's black powder. *Didn't think of that one though did ya SHORTBUS??*

@@DoinThupidThings Hahahaha coward.

@@DoinThupidThings You really don't realize how bad you're making yourself look. By all means, continue

How is it a great culture?

India is doing same in kashmir Over 100k kashmiris have been killed by indian army since 1947 Thousands of women raped Like famous kunan poshpora incident

everyone needs to leave canada and go back to there own land. this is disgusting

Your heart is already blinded by the riches you'll not take with you when you die, so don't act very sad for Ukrainians and Israelis if you don't care about Indigenouses, Aborigines and Maoris

@Ptero Dactyloid just go back from where you came European _ig

@Ptero Dactyloid so basically what you mean is that if Peoples from Africa and Asia should start making laws forming a legislature body and they've also been working for the land harder than any other, they give you an amount bought up a big piece of land the land area slowly increases and send you guys to a physically and economically state that you've never thought of will that be alright well it's sounds perfect that should not be a problem Humanity doesn't work that way man

Either try to take it back or get a job

@@Valvasori403 This has nothing to do with China.

Turns out it was all a lie

White colonizers will be a minority in so-called "Canada" in 2036 lol cry about settlers.

While I agree with you that Natives aren't and were never united or one people like the Mexican commenter is saying, countless genetic studies show that Natives came in only 3 waves and that 80% of indigenous people in North & South America today are descended from the 1st wave. The 2nd wave being the ancestors of the Athabaskans & the final wave being the ancestors of the Inuit so yes we are native.

Studying genes to come to the conclusion that a group entered a continent at a certain time seems like sheer speculation. That's like saying that looking at European DNA will tell you the day that Celts invaded Ireland. Also, "wave" is ambiguous. In a wave, the first clan is the first nation, and all others are invaders. Studies show that saying that studies show things doesn't really prove anything.

Ok try to discredit anything just to fit your racist narrative, I can see it isn't going to make a difference.

probably metis through a grandparent. My town you have dark metis, french dark and white metis, and white metis like him. Because of generations of intermixing in the north "race" of metis tends to get tricky. Some metis dont even know they are metis or have native in them, brown frenchies are mistakenly seen as french canadian by english canadians in most northern towns/cities an outsider "white european" could get in trouble trying to discredit a local white metis status, if a white northerner says hes indian most of the time they really are.

I respect your opinion but I disagree

it can be summarized in one page to be honest they didnt even have a written language

@@GungeScleraEmpyaema Because it was only stories being told going generations, but ended up losing all that due to the past actions of the Canadian government. edit: Yes we do have our own written language, Syllabics (there are many ways we write them, but my own writing is Ojibwe)

no, if we are willing to remember the history of all other nations, of all the kings, of all the religions, we are OUGHT TO START learning about the real history of this country. people dont want to keep racism alive and therefore they are teaching and learning about the truth more, only when you accept the atrocities that were done in the past you are ready to heal. you have to learn and accept other people in order to unite people.

@@xosmokey how has emphasizing the sins of the past united people? It's done quite the opposite. Politicians are pitting people against each other based on the sins of the past. Why is it that most of the Nigerians that come to the U.S. thrive? They're more successful than our Asian immigrants. Yet politicians would have you believe they're victims based on their skin color. They don't have time to play the victim. They're busy hustling to get an education and start new businesses. From what I'm hearing, states are revising school textbooks to promote this victim mentality.

@@xosmokey it's unfortunate that our children will not learn the REAL history of this country. They won't hear about the good or the bad because of the revisionists that are cancelling certain people and their achievements because of their present day outlook. I agree we should talk more about all the different cultures and their contributions to society. But it looks like that won't happen because certain cultures are being cancelled based on the the amount of pigment in their skin.

@@ramlin35 I disagree

Yet more murder by the Catholic Church... IT IS THE 21st CENTURY - AND STILL, MUCH OF THE WORLD IS ENSLAVED BY SUPERSTITION... ALL RELIGION IS SUPERSTITION - WHICH SO OFTEN LEADS TO - VIOLENCE - MADNESS - AND MURDER. CATHOLICISM NEEDS TO DIE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE...

Including gay culture.

@@maunster3414 Gay culture only in USA not Canada!!!

So you discriminate and disrespect, yes?

@@maunster3414 speak English this Canada

I want to help indigenous

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and you know God loves us so much,So where are you originally from? I am David originally from Spain but currently living in Texas now.

how do you know aside for last few 100 years, maybe good prevailed before. its a narrative

Indigenous people are special kind of people who do stuff differently then other culture its really unique and there race is really unique too because indigenous race was combine by other race for EX Blackfoot, soax. Well those are the only race i only know but you should study them its gets way interesting trust me it's worth of your time.

Indigenous is a term used for the people who were here before columbus came and committed mass genocide on the different nations who've lived in what is now north and south america for thousands of years. First nations, indigenous, indian, native american, are all used as blanket terms for the people who were here before, and had our own systems of governance, hundreds of languages and dialects and trading routes between different nations. For example my people are known as Lil'wat, we live within the St'at'imc Territory in so called British Columbia, and we speak Ucwalmicwts.

Lexlixatkwa7 Nelson xD K’alhwá7acw nsnúkwa7! N’Quatquamlhkán.

Would be nice if they left lol

@@Mimi-mq2wj nah why leave the greatness that they built

@@englishman9020 what greatness.... I don’t see any greatness in killing off natives

@@englishman9020 No greatness in genocide.

English man Guilty as heck

Oh please stop lying , i'm amazigh

North african are amazigh people arab live only in arabia saudi yemen oman jordania kuwait some part syria iraq are mesopotamian babylonian liban are pheonician and hebrew

Yup now most of North Africa is controlled by not only Arabs but Arab Berbers

@@matthewmann8969 there's nothing like arab berber that is a political tool for control its either you are berber or arab

Indie scum

Free Turtle Island

Michael Gaudette Don’t even say genocide in Canada is historically inaccurate. The definition of the word genocide in accordance with the UN lists factors that classify whether or not it is actually genocide. With this in mind, it can be said that the residential schools were an act of genocide. Also, just recently the inquiry for MMIW classifies the MMIW as an act of genocide. So technically, when First Nations people scream genocide, they’re not wrong. Canada has committed acts of genocide and that’s a fact.

Oh hush up fool

If you were really sorry, you would not have said what you said. Not accurate? Are you kidding. Whites wiped out 70 percent of their population. what is it if not genocide?

Qatar is Wealthy from oil and natural gas! All "Empire" use (used) a form of slavery! All Empires!

So?

Indian pa jeets don't go to Qatar for free They are being given good wages and salaries , that's why they come and work in Qatar Just imagine if the Indian workers lived in india, they won't even get 10$ a month An indian pa jeet would live in far better condition in Qatar At least he would be having a toilet in his home While over 732 million Indians are without basic need toilet that is over 50 %population

@Lotta Lou speak truth to power! I have no power only truth! Anti Catholicism is real!

@Lotta Lou you do also. Yawn yawn.

Gtfoh with your gobbledygook.😆

the american army killed all the injuns....shut up and get real

well maybe his great grandpa was one among the women kidnappers😂

Bullshit 🙄

@@ryanhinks5515 you think they forgot what Mohammed did? He murdered and genocded his way to the Great Religion they now are. They are a Great Religion but DC not feed me any BS on how they arrived there. It is quite evident.

@@jaypee7632 Fake news! Don't be such a paranoid Islamophobic idiot! 😆

What dark acts😂 lmao Christian’s caused all the world wars and slavery n many more things stop trying to change the subject typical American if not us Africans we’re given rights under Islam unlike being slaves for the white look at mansa Musa or the Mali empire

While the Spanish were not better, at least they didn't try to elimnate all the natives

@@brndonlu9635 yeah... In the beginning the Spanish were harsh toward the native Americans but gradually they became tolerant and started to inter marry. Also remember that most of the death of indigenous people in Latin America was due to plague and diseases.

@@muazzamshaikh2049 Ar least they were much nicer to the Natives than the French and British

@@brndonlu9635 yes... And as far as my knowledge is concerned, the idea of racial superiority was not much prevalent among the Spanish and the Portuguese, although they were very fanatical when it came to religion. And I think the situation among the English was quite the opposite. ( correct me if I'm wrong)

@@muazzamshaikh2049 Yea. We got the white supermacy ideal from them I believe

Agree true apology is for the people to get their lands back and the Europeans go back to where they came from

@@shamashatum7927 never cared bout eruo ppl. They always been hating on asian. This is about our indigenous people. N their kids.

Stop pouting crybaby

Get your family to suffer and see if you can move on. And they have asked for what is rightfully theirs.

@@omzzzz5186 Glad to know :). Thankfully, things are moving in a positive direction in Canada, and I am very happy about it. Government has started to acknowledge their rights and the atrocities perpetrated on them . National Truth and reconciliation day is one example. But there is a lot more to be done. Still, the rate of hate crimes against indigenous people is high and majority of them live in poverty. I don't mean to sound preachy but we all have to do our part so that they can live happily in this society. Inclusivity is required. I am glad to see Canadian universities taking a step in this direction. McMaster has an indigenous department now. Personally, I have decided to volunteer for an indigenous NGO and donate. Its a very small step but a small step by each one of us can make a significant change🙂.

Justifying the genocide they've done ? Until the white man comes to any place nothing lives, it's only when he comes and says boom I discovered you..now you exist 🤭

Prosperous, green and without capitalism. A beautiful country where people respect and love each other irrespective of their gender, sexual orientation, and status, where people live in harmony with nature and not be parasitic on it.

@@312anjali they’d be a third world country, massive economic divisions, racism etc

@@StevenRoberts77 Is it? Isnt racism the byproduct of western civilization? No one has divided this world more than the west- racism, imperialism, class segregation, inequality because of capitalism etc etc etc. Most of the present third world countries were richer than the west before they became victims of the west's greed and looted. How do you say, "economic divisions"? Have you read about their culture? Economic divisions are the result of capitalism and bureaucracy, given to this world by the west. Worst case, they were a third world country, atleast they would not have been the victim of intergenerational trauma perpetrated because of mass killings and sufferings. Wouldn't that be better or that we justify the murder of 12 million people by assuming that it would have been a third world country if they were alive?

@@312anjali what an ignorant comment dynasties in China have been dividing people for millennia, slavery started in Africa when North Africans took Mesopotamian people, India has always had racial divisions with Island people and the Middle East long before European exploration. The most racist countries in the world are in the east but sure push your agenda you ungrateful thing

@Diya Roy 🥰

That there for the convoy 😅😅😂😂

Cry

We natives don't live up your racist expectations lol go back to Europe settler

Humans are immigrants on this world in general. You know what's depressing? Some of the original inhabitants of this world have gone completely extinct because of human greed. People forget that animals were here long before we were.

Yeah, but he has not killed, raped, exploited anyone to settle here. Alas! same cant be said for immigrants who came 500 years ago.

Residential schools missing indigenous women racism towards indigenous mercury-contaminated water in reserves suicide epidemics in reserves These are recent and ongoing things- you can't move on because these good people are still suffering.

No you move out.

@@RainVine so well said!

Jeeez u should really learned more about indigenous people

You’re really stupid that culture and land buddy the banks own everything the government watches over everything with they’r agency programs like the cia and other people like the cops and military force if it doesn’t go they’re way.

You say "we" like you could do any harm.. Go look in the street for a indian to "wipe out" .. If you got the balls

Shame on you!. You literally have no repentence. Well! when you enter somebody else's house, you are supposed to be harmed. Try it today and you will know. And you know what! you could never have wiped them out because goodness still exists.

Yeah, it really is a shame all those priests never succeeded in raping, torturing and stripping every Native child of their cultural identity. You sound insane.

Grazz Don't be so ridiculous. Moron

Stop twisting people's words around.

No!! Why force other's to give up their religion for Christianity?? Why must they go to schools that glorify European history but teach them nothing of their own??

The goal of residential school were to eliminate the “Indian” in a child. What good is to bring our people to a school where they were physically and sexually abused?

@@jubileemama2000 That isn't what I was taught by my own people (refering to OP), there wasn't any teaching about religion. Just raping, beating, mental scarring, by residential schools.

Don’t forget Asians

Did you use a derogatory term for indigenous people? This shows what you and your values are. You are a savage, not them.

OF COURSE I know

OF COURSE They are experts at mistreatment. Brits and France were too soft

OF COURSE 😂 correct

OF COURSE Thank you 😊 that really means a lot

Nah, we would have killed you or sent you scampering back onto your ships easily. Your ancestors would have never had the kind of evil in their hearts to actually use a disease as a weapon on an entire people, not like the Anglo-Saxons.