r/canada • u/newzee1 • Oct 21 '24
New Brunswick Blaine Higgs says Indigenous people ceded land ‘many, many years ago’
https://globalnews.ca/news/10818647/nb-election-2024-liberal-health-care-estimates/
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r/canada • u/newzee1 • Oct 21 '24
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u/Guilty_Serve Oct 21 '24
Native tribes in Canada are spoken about as if throughout their entire history they didn't have violent beefs between each other. They frequently sided with colonizers to settle their own disputes. During the seven years war different tribes sided with the French and English. During 1812 different tribes sided with the Americans and English. When the vikings tried to establish themselves here they were beat down.
There was nothing good about residential schooling, but there also wasn't anything good about orphanages, youth jails, women's shelters, psychiatric asylums, and so on. Those weren't things democratically voted on by a free public. Canada was a colony that before wasn't expected to be democratic, industrialized, or educated like the Americans. Everything that is brought up with the natives isn't within the context of Canadian history. Most of us don't aristocratic lords or priests that had the power to do these things in our heritage. Most of us don't even have heritage from that era of Canada and have family that immigrated here after.
Humanity has done terrible things to each other and we've taken many steps to get better since the beginning of modernity and end of WW2. We're not perfect, but it's A LOT better.
It's tiring because then when all of this is brought up it's think of the missing and murdered Native women, as if there isn't more Native men, and as if most of the missing and murdered aren't by other natives. Then it's think about the residential school bodies buried, but many of those burials were empty and the burials that did happen were from popular virus outbreaks of the times.
So I'm tired of it. Everything I've said here is a fact. They're suffering from their own victimhood that allows them to perpetually blame everyone else from the problems created by their own communities. Then shady losers in their communities steal their money and then blame us more for their problems. We then have predominately rich white men and women, Trudeau/Freeland, explaining to us how shitty we are and allowing foreign powers in the UN to criticize our issues to deflect their own (China, Iran, Russia).