What I find striking about this narrative is the complete lack of any mainstream public personality who is intellectually brave enough to criticize it. No nation can hold itself to some historical perfection (or modern one at that), and we should measure it by the sum of all its parts.
Vemes Video Clips Good. Y'all wouldn't be here. No one asked for the Europeans to create Canada on already occupied land. Before it was Canada it was territories for native people.
Ravail S Yeah. We'd die without the Internet. Not, life without the Internet would be a good life. Life without alcohol, drugs like heroin and meth, no polution, the polar bears wouldn't be dying, and so on and so forth. I'd rather be hunting rabbits in the woods than killing my own planet for greed.
Altering immigration and making multiculturalism state policy was the beginning of the end for Canada. This is now all we are going to hear until the inevitable happens and Canada is chopped up and divided between a plethora of competing groups. That is the end game of diversity.
Ahhh....ok, first I would like to say that even though we did these bad things and I do not think that they are good or fine I do know about the mindset of the Canadians. If you compare Canada to other nations at that time then you will see how Canada was more like a saint rather than an evil colony who wanted to remove the Native Americans. Also, the mindset was also that the US wasn't being all friends with First Nations but that they were pushing them aside and also fought way more wars for land than Canada did. Canada also wanted to get the land settled before the US could get the land and if the US got more land that would mean more wars, death, to First Nations. First I would like to say that yes we should know about the past of Canada and the racism that existed so that we know how we came to be the way we are in Canada. However, when have you ever gone to a school that glorifies our past actions? I know some schools will avoid the topic but not glorify it and make it seem that we were glorious in the NorthWest Rebellion against the "savage" Metis. In school, I was taught about how we treated First Nations poorly and we should feel sympathy and empathy towards them and not ignore our past. I am not a white supremacist or racist but I do believe that we can't just learn about what happened but WHY it happened and what their mindset was for the beginning of Canada's history. Nothing can replace what happened but what we can do is move forward and learn from our mistakes and learn about the past but not stay there. The past can give us information, wisdom and help us learn but that will not stop racism, segregation, war, economic strife, all by itself. No one can say to forget and move on but we all want good outcomes but have trouble getting there. "There are no perfect men in the world; only perfect intentions" From Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
I live in northern Canada around a large indigenous pulation. the local universities are so attainable and available for any indigenous students in the area... no sales tax, tons of grant money for indigenous youth projects, affordable housing that is no worse than the non-reserve houses. literally every inch of the Earth has been "colonized"- look at Europe, the middle East, ancient Israel.... it has shaped the world we live in, sometimes for the better sometimes for the worse- but for the first time in history, nations (mostly "westernized" nations) are in a position to truly self reflect, learn from the past, and thus make huge strides in human rights standards that are the rest of the world can look up to and hope to achieve. Canada treated the indigenous population poorly, but we are one of the few countries in the world that accepts all people of all walks of life,and take pride in it. "colonialism" is still happening in the sense that a sikh student from India (for example) comes to Canada to study, graduates, falls in love, creates a life here, and becomes Canadian, purchasing property, or land, and uses the resources of the land (water, agriculture, livestock)... surely you're not against that are you?? even if the means of Canada becoming what it is today was done more peacefully, or even without any violence let's say, it would still result in the watering down of the various indigenous populations here- they would consume our media, learn about ancient Rome, the persian empire, the Han dynasty in China, Picasso , Monty Python, all the way to the Kardashians. our civilization exists here and it's not going away... to say no to Canada is to say no to the modern world and our onward journey into a multicultural, kinder, safer, and innovative nation of amazing people....I hate to say it, but I can't help but think of ethno-statism when some native activists voice their demands... I know this is probably super problematic and offensive to many of you, but there's a comment section here that lets me put in my 2 cents.
I can guarantee as a white person living in southern Alberta, racism and poor treatment of aboriginal people is alive and well in Canada unfortunately. I can't say what it's like where you are. But where I am it's so obvious that the authority figures are against aboriginals that you have to be actively avoiding looking in order to not notice. It is that blatant.
This comments section is horrendous, so I'm just going to put it in perspective for you. Imagine if in a couple years Russians decided to come onto Canadian soil and made an agreement to share the land with Canadians. However, Russian's had more power and more people and wanted to completely take away our language and culture, and so they made school's to do exactly that. You at the young age of 5 were taken away from your family and your culture and went to a school were the teachers beat you if you spoke English, you couldn't see your brothers and sisters, you were taught that everything you knew about yourself was dirty and wrong and your friends were constantly dying from abuse and you got close once or twice. 10 years later when you were finally out of that school and go back to your Canadian family, you realize you don't fit in there either. You don't remember how to speak English anymore so you can't speak with your own mom, you feel like an outsider in your own community, but the Russian's don't accept you either. You have been raised in an abusive and hateful environment where they have ripped all you're culture away from you. When you have children you are forced to send them to the place that destroyed you and you know will do the same to them. After over 100 years of these schools existing Russia finally decides to stop, so you're grandchildren won't have to bare the same horror's you did and your children did. But they have to bare their own horror's, having parent's who have only ever known abuse, so that is what they put out, your grandchildren grow up not knowing their Canadian culture, because it was drained out of their parents, grandparents and great grandparents. They grow up in a country who does not acknowledge the horror's that happened just one generation past, but judges them for dealing with these horrors in a not so ideal way (ie. alcohol, abuse, suicide) but does nothing to help. Then it's the 150th Birthday of this Russian land and everyone is happy about it and ready to celebrate. You, your children and their children and the other Canadian's left are not really feeling celebratory over this anniversary, some Canadian's speak up, they are met with "Canadian's didn't own this land!" "You're a bunch of whiners, get over it already!" and (my favorite) "Without colonization there would be not Russia" I think "Canadian's" would have been okay with that. Now if you just switch Canada with Indigenous and Russia with Canada, you have the world we live in! I am not Indigenous, and I'm sorry if I portrayed your struggles wrong please correct me if there is anything that I was misinformed about. But I do care, and I do think what happened and is still happening to them is so so wrong.
The fact is that the Indians lost the war against the white man and that is what all the whining is about,do they really think that they would want to live in a society run by Indians because everyone knows that they or any of the other non whites wouldn't because it would be hell on earth,all of the non whites like to shit on the white man but in the same breath will use all the white mans inventions and luxuries the hypocrites. People also need to stop referring to them as first nations because 1. there is documented evidence that Europeans were here before the so called natives and 2. even if they were here first than big deal,being here and living in teepees and being hunter gatherers doesn't amount to being founders of the country,a country is what it is because of the borders,infrastructures,institutions and so on that was all created by Europeans,I'm not saying that this isn't the Indians land I'm saying its both Europeans and Indians neither side is first anything because the Indians were simply hunter gatherers
Can you not call us Indians that was a derogatory term made up by the white man. Just like squaw Indian princess created by the way man. We are indigenous like cowboys and settlers call us Indians and therefore we are😢
You need look no further than this comment section for examples of the prevalent attitude of Canadians. Indigenous people are the worst treated people in our nation. Even new immigrants assimilate this bias. We're the only people here that it's socially acceptable to hate.
K Tanner socially acceptable? I wouldn't go that far. Are there assholes in this world? Yes. But to say it's socially acceptable in Canada to discriminate against First Nations is not true.
Maybe you're right, I just don't know anyone that thinks it's cool to hate native people. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I'm just saying it's not socially acceptable. Canada isn't full of people who hate them. That's just not factual.
kyle strickland That is a myth. Can you tell me the plan behind this? the facts? who has gotten free? who do you know who has gotten all of that free stuff? where are the facts, you can't just talk about a bunch of shit while lying about. you explain yourself. I am full native and i don't get free Healthcare, i don't get free college, I didn't get a free house, I don't have free checks every month. I'm registered with my band and i don't get free stuff.
saddenedluke x well in North western Ontario where I live there are a few reserves around here and I have friends who live on them. lots of them went to college and it was payed for by the Canadian government. I'm not here to make fun of you or anything I'm just calling out what I see where I'm from
kyle strickland You said this video is a joke because of the stuff she's saying. First Nations are treated like shit every damn day, we don't want white guilt we just want justice. we want people to know about our problems and we want people to realize what we're going through. being native isn't all sunshine and rainbows. my mom was beaten for being a Native woman in high school. my grandma was turned down jobs because she was native. I've been called an alcoholic even though I've never drank alcohol in my entire life. as a Native girl I'm 10 times more likely than any other girl to get raped, assaulted or murdered. my cousin went missing and she wasnt a slut or hooker. she was 14 and she was coming home from school at 3:30 and no one ever saw her again. people say "oh she must have been a hooker" but my cousin was a good girl and she didn't do stuff like that. our reserves have no clean water, no Healthcare on some, we live in poverty and have high suicide rates and everyone blames it on us. my grandma went to residential schools when she was a little girl and she sobs at night to me saying that a priest used to rape her at night when she was a teen. I almost got raped when I was walking home from school, some white man came up to me and said I was pretty but I got away. my teachers always think I am going to fail because native kids are drop outs. I'm not asking you to say sorry for this but just realize that you're being racist and ignorant.
